Ontology primer from Stanford.
A 6-minute video presentation. Parts 2 and 3 are available in the list of Related Videos.
One of the best-known academics in the field.
A classic paper by Dr. James Cimino at Columbia University.
A later paper from Cimino.
While we're at it, Cimino's own Web site. Click on links to the left for an extensive set of presentations and publications.
By Dr. Christopher Chute, Chair, Biomedical Informatics, Mayo Clinic College of Medicine.
A contrarian view.
A legal perspective.
Kaiser Permanente's enterprise-wide medical terminology solution.
Stanford's biomedical repository.
Mayo Clinic's Enterprise Data Trust.
The traditional approach — definitely not what we'd advise — but a good example of the alternatives.
A good job, but without generalized knowledge models as the foundation — i2b2 at Cincinnati Children's Hospital Medical Center.
A look at several SNOMED browsers.
UMLS site at the National Library of Medicine.
The International Healthcare Terminology Standards Development Organization.
A presentation describing some of the thinking behind the creation of IHTSDO, with useful justification for SNOMED itself.
A very useful SNOMED overview from Robert Dolin, CMIO at Kaiser Permanente.
A nice SNOMED introduction written for the NHS in Britain.
An AHIMA white paper with useful details regarding ICD-10 and SNOMED.
Integration with SNOMED is an objective for ICD-11.
They use SNOMED like we would.
Browse the SNOMED vocabulary online.
Open Biomedical Ontologies.
At the National Center for Biomedical Ontologies.
The Gene Ontology project.
The Foundational Model of Anatomy.
Used by the VA.
From the AMA.
A tool for the unification of genome annotations.
From Dow Jones.
An overview of the trigger tool concept.
The IHI's home page for trigger tool information.
Detailed definition of the current version of the IHI trigger tool.
Working group for the Health Quality Measures Format on Google Code.
HL7 ballot document making Health Quality Measures Format (HQMF) a standard.
April 2008 version, from Google Code.
NQMC, sponsored by the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ), U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, is a public repository for evidence-based quality measures and measure sets.
Established by the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS), QualityNet provides healthcare quality improvement news, resources and data reporting tools and applications used by healthcare providers and others.
The Healthcare Information Technology Standards Panel (HITSP) is a cooperative partnership between the public and private sectors. The Panel was formed for the purpose of harmonizing and integrating standards that will meet clinical and business needs for sharing information among organizations and systems.
NQF presentation by Dr. Rosenthal.
The CDS Roadmap and the Morningside Initiative.
Materials from a conference that "aimed to bring together researchers from different branches of AI to examine cutting-edge approaches to guideline modeling and development".
An object-oriented query and logical expression language for clinical decision support.
MEDAL's goal is to overcome the barriers contributing to underutilisation of medical algorithms in healthcare by ensuring accurate and reliable equations and algorithms; providing adequate documentation with references to the original sources; standardizing data elements, to enable automation of input and output; and indexing and linking for quick access and retrieval.
A white paper from the Web site of Navigenics, a genetic testing company. Illustrates what is available for practitioners today.
An initiative launched in 2004 to support a coordinated, systematic process for evaluating genetic tests and other genomic applications that are in transition from research to clinical and public health practice in the United States.
Site seems inactive, but still connects to a collection of Federal activities and resources.
A 30 minute video with Steven Pinker and others.
On the site of 23 and Me, a consumer genetic testing company.
A RAND Best Practices study.
caBIG's tissue bank repository tool.
National Cancer Institute Best Practices study.
Not sure if this was ever implemented.
The leading faceted search research project.
An important academic paper describing Flamenco.
Another academic paper describing Flamenco.
A master's thesis regarding one of our favorite topics.
A good mathematical introduction.
A nice explanation for SVD.
Another angle, and a reallyt nice intuitive explanation in the opening sections.
A finalist for the Netflix Prize describes his approach.
Center for information on the CTSA grant program.
A number of relevant and useful presentations.
Some really important concepts for us.
2009 survey of the HIE landscape, from eHealth Initiative.
From the AHIMA.
On the HHS Web site.
A leading vendor of software for exchanges.
From the American Hospital Assocication.
Lots of useful reports, also from the American Hospital Assocication.
From the Kaiser Family Foundation.
National health care patterns.
