CSHALS is the premier annual event focused on the use of semantic technologies in the pharmaceutical industry, including hospitals/healthcare institutions and academic research labs.

Rather than a Semantic Web conference, CSHALS focuses on specific applications of semantic technologies. Attendees will gain a better understanding of where the field is headed and be prepared to advance with the field.

CSHALS is intended for anyone already participating in this groundbreaking field, and a pre-conference tutorial is offered to help interested researchers come up to speed on the practical approaches of applying intelligent information technologies in pharmaceutical R&D.

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Conference participants will take part in discussion sessions that  explore answers to technology questions such as the following:

• Where are semantic applications having the biggest impact?

• What support exists for using semantics for automated reasoning and agent technologies?

• How well do semantic tools enable the visualization and utilization of information and knowledge?

• What are the measurable benefits of Semantic Web standards, such as RDF, OWL, and SPARQL?

Themes of past CSHALS conferences:

• Clinical Information Management

• Discovery Information Integration

• Integrated Healthcare and Semantics in Electronic Health Records

• Translational Medicine / Safety

• Search and Document Management/Business Intelligence/Text Mining

• Text Mining/ Information Extraction

CSHALS will be preceded by a half day Tutorial focused on the current Semantic Web standard RDF tools to show participants how this technology meets drug development needs.