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Thursday, September 9, 2010
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Last updated: 08/21/2009
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| Medical Concept Representation |
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| Founded: 1981 |
| Membership: 50 |
| http://www.imia.org/wg6 |
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| Chair |
Term of Office: 2007-2010 |
| Bodenreider, Dr. Olivier , MD PhD |
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| Staff Scientist |
| US National Library of Medicine |
| Bethesda Maryland USA 20894 |
| +1 301 435 3246 |
| +1 301 480 3035 |
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Goals & Objectives
Objectives:
To provide a forum for state of the art dialogue and collaboration on natural language processing and concept representation in healthcare applications, IMIAs Medical Concept Representation Working Group is the international forum for issues related to informatics in the classification and coding of health data. The working group is charged with:
1) Reviewing health data nomenclature and classification needs for the world community;
2) Evaluating information processing technology in meeting these defined needs; and
2) Recommending methods for future classification and nomenclature systems.
Recent Activities
Joint panels on Terminology and Natural Language Processing were conducted at Medinfo 2004 with MIE and AMIA working groups.
A resumption of the triennial meeting series took place in Rome, Italy from April 29-May 2, 2005. Dr. Barry Smith of the University of Buffalo and The Institute for Formal Ontology and Medical Information Science, part of the Faculty of Medicine of the University of Leipzig, was Program Chair. Proceedings appeared in the Journal of Biomedical Informatics as a special issue of the Journal of Biomedical computing in June, 2006.
Future Activities
WG6 will convene at MedInfo 2007 in Brisbane to plan a WG symposium in 2008.
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