Conference on Semantics in Healthcare & Life Sciences (C-SHALS)
Discussion Questions
| C-SHALS 2008 will address a number of important discussion questions including: |
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| 1. Clinical Information Management |
| Q: For what aspects of clinical information are semantics needed immediately? |
| Q: What does a fully semantically-enabled clinical information environment look like? |
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| 2. Discovery Information Integration |
| Q: What specific tasks or operations do you wish to accomplish using a semantic-unified approach? |
| Q: How can semantics applied in Discovery help reduce Phase 2 attrition? |
| Q: What are the most promising ways to work with multiple ontologies in Discovery domains? |
| Q: How can semantics be used to help us better understand compound efficacy and safety? |
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| 3. Integrated Healthcare and Semantics in Electronic Health Records |
| Q: Which area can semantics have the biggest impact on: a) patient record standardization, b) healthcare policy management, c) adverse event capture and handling |
| Q: Are there any potential pitfalls of the use of semantic technologies in highly-regulated environments? |
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| 4. Business Intelligence and Text Mining/ Information Extraction |
| Q: Are current commercial products sufficient for semantically-driven aggregation and/or information extraction? |
| Q: What are the most promising ways in which semantics can help remove some of the bottlenecks in information extraction and text mining? |
| Q: How can we streamline tasks like ontology development in large pharmaceutical companies? |
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| 5. Translational Medicine / Safety |
| Q: Do current ontologies (indicate which ones) provide sufficient coverage for TM to succeed? |
| Q: What are the most promising ways in which semantic technologies can be used to improve compound safety profiles? |
| Q: How can semantics be applied to the problem of alternative indications discovery? |
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