Program

Presentations will include invited speakers (listed below), as well as a selection from abstract submissions in answer to the call for submissions inviting expert contributions for this workshop.

Stephane Meystre will moderate the workshop and present “Automated Treatment Quality Assessment for Heart Failure”

Dr. Meystre, MD, PhD, is a faculty member and Chair of the Translational Biomedical Informatics Center at the Medical University of South Carolina (Charleston, SC) with research activities focused on easing access to unstructured clinical data for research and clinical care purposes, using techniques such as NLP for information extraction and automated de-identification. He is also chair of the AMIA Natural Language Processing working group, and chair of the IMIA Health Information Systems working group.

Christoph Lehmann will present "Improving Patient Experience through Data Reuse”

Dr. Lehmann is Professor for Biomedical Informatics and Pediatrics at Vanderbilt University Medical Center where he directs the Clinical Informatics Fellowship Program. He conceived and launched the journal Applied Medical Informatics, and served as the Editor-in-Chief since its inception. In 2009, he co-edited Pediatric Informatics, the first textbook on this subject. Dr. Lehmann served on the board of the American Medical Informatics Association from 2008 to 2013 and served two terms as the organizations secretary. In 2010, he was inducted as a fellow into the American College of Medical Informatics, in 2014 he was elected to the American Pediatric Society, and in 2012 he became Vice President of the International Medical Informatics Association in charge of the IMIA Yearbook. In 2016, he became President-Elect of the International Medical Informatics Association. Dr. Lehmann serves on the federal Health IT Policy Committee and as the chair of the Examination Committee of the American Board of Preventive Medicine, Subcommittee for Clinical Informatics.

Ronal Cornet will present “Performing research on and with unstructured data”

Dr. Cornet is an assistant professor at the department of Medical Informatics of the Academic Medical Center in Amsterdam and a visiting associate professor at the department of Biomedical Engineering of Linköping University in Sweden. He has initiated and chaired AMIA’s Knowledge Representation and Semantics working group and is the current chair of IMIA working group Language and Meaning in Biomedicine. He has had long-time involvement in various Dutch initiatives in improving semantic interoperability through use of standardized information models and terminologies, predominantly Detailed Clinical Models and SNOMED CT. He chairs the health section of Amsterdam Data Science.

Carlos Luis Parra-Calderón will present “Real-time Spanish NLP infrastructure applied to the Regional EHR in Andalusia”

Mr. Parra-Calderon is Head of Technological Innovation and Information Security of Virgen del Rocío University Hospital, and Head of Research & Innovation in Biomedical Informatics, Biomedical Engineering and Health Economy of Institute of Biomedicine of Seville. He is also lecturer in the MSc course “Management of Information and Communication Technologies and Systems for Health” by the Spanish Society of Health Informatics (SEIS) and National School of Public Health; main co-founder of Digitalica Salud, SL. Member of the AENOR TC139 of Medical Informatics; coordinator of the Organizational Interoperability Working Group (WG); member of the SEIS Board; European Federation of Medical Informatics (EFMI) Spanish representative; IMIA Spanish representative; member of the EFMI Translational Health Informatics WG; member of the IMIA Health Information Systems WG; member of HL7 Spain and author of several implementation guidelines; and EIP on AHA A1 (Treatment adherence) Objective Coordinator.

Roundtable discussion