[COAS-List] Re: Alignment of OMG HDIF and COAS Submissions

["Jerome B. Soller, PhD" <soller@cognitech-ut.com>]

Dear COAS Submitter's List,
Due to other commitments, we were unable to finish our COAS
examples by January 4.  We will have these ready by the next OMG
submitter's meeting on January 14.

Jerome

Jerome B. Soller, PhD wrote:

> Dear COAS Submitters List,
>
> At the last COAS submitter's team meeting in Salt Lake City, we promised
> to work on instance examples of COAS:Observations and the calls to COAS
> services to retrieve those Observations for antibiotic decision support
> use scenarios (i.e. real-time decision support for one patient and
> executive decision support over a population of patients).  We expect to
> finish our initial attempt by January 4th.  If anyone has done similar
> work laying out concrete examples, please e-mail them to us.  On January
> 4th, we will e-mail our examples to the entire group.
>
> This will be one aspect of our harmonization between the CogniTech
> initial OMG Healthcare Data Interpretation Facility (HDIF) response
> (supported by Universidade federal de Sao Paulo, University of Sao Paulo
> Medical School Hospital, CyberMed, William H. Brady (WHB) Clinics and
> University of Utah Center for Human Genome Research) and the COAS
> submission.  This response is one of four responses, which we predict
> will be merged into the final submission.  All four responses are
> available on
> http://www.omg.org/techprocess/meetings/schedule/Healthcare_Data_Interpretation_RFP.html#Initial_Submission_Deadline
>
> Other important areas for harmonization include:
> 1.  Constraint language access
> 2.  Uncertainty
> 3.  The conversion of an HDIF RunSet (engine, inputs, outputs and
> runtime parameters) into a COAS:Observation (created by a system, not a
> person).
> 4.  Input/Output models (IOSet models) from our HDIF proposal with COAS
> equivalents.
> 5.  Ontology model (created by Fabiane Bizinella Nardon, MSc.  of
> University of Sao Paulo Medical School Hospital and Beatriz de Faria
> Leao, Md, PhD of Universidade federal de Sao Paulo).  Beatriz and
> Fabiane envision the creation of ontology components to map sets of data
> to representations of various information models (e.g. HL7 RIM/HL7
> templates, ASTM, X12, CEN, DICOM, etc.).
> 6.  XML mappings
>
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> Jerome B. Soller, Ph.D.
> President, CogniTech Corporation
> Phone: (801) 322-0101
> Fax: (801) 322-0975
> E-mail: soller@cognitech-ut.com
> Web site: http://www.cognitech-ut.com/
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> Tamara Y. Porter-Jones
> Software Engineer, CogniTech Corporation
> Phone: (801) 322-0101
> Fax: (801) 322-0975
> E-mail: tporter@eng.utah.edu
> "Not all who wander are lost."
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