[KMDG-L] ISKO UK: Interoperability: joining up knowledge and information in the health sector

Tuesday 1st November (14.00-19.00)

King's Fund W1G 0AN

 Registration has now opened for our ISKO-UK afternoon meeting on Tuesday 1 November:

The complexity of managing information and knowledge in health is astonishing. As budgets tighten in the public sector, all of us are affected - with patients at the really sharp end. Users and providers of information face huge demands for increased efficiency and effectiveness. Records must be shared and reused, while being accurate and confidential. We hope you can join us to hear about lessons and challenges for seamless and reliable flows of medical and care information. The emphasis will be on clinical information directly relevant to patients, but parallels can be drawn across the public and private sectors.

You can find out more details of the event and register via the ISKO UK site at http://www.iskouk.org/events/health_nov2011.htm. And please pass this invitation on to any colleagues who may be interested.

The event is free to ISKO members and to full-time students. The fee for non-members is just £40. All fees must be paid in advance - there is no provision for payment on arrival. Please note the venue is not UCL this time - it is the King's Fund, London W1G 0AN. Registration opens at 1.30 and we shall start promptly at 2 p.m.

The provisional programme includes these topics from leading speakers: 

• joining up knowledge and information to deliver better, safer, more convenient and cost-effective healthcare;
• using codes and controlled vocabularies to embed unambiguous definitions of medical conditions and procedures in the patient record;
• how real projects use metadata in practice;
• Knowledge Management when the patient is in control of the records;
• interoperability and the NHS using the Interoperability Toolkit (ITK) and opening it to greater engagement from potential users and suppliers;

As speakers we welcome Ewan Davis, a health informatics consultant; Ian Herbert, Vice-Chair of BCS Health; Ann Wrightson of the NHS Wales Informatics Service who since 2009 has chaired the HL7 UK Technical Committee; Dr Mohammad Al-Ubaydli, a clinician and researcher in medical software; Martin Whittaker of Touchstone Consultancy and Ian Lewin, a text mining specialist, working for the European Bioinformatics Institute.

ISKO is a not-for-profit scientific/professional association with the objective of promoting research and communication in the domain of knowledge organization, within the broad field of information science and related disciplines. Founded in 2007, our UK Chapter has been attracting lively and steadily growing audiences to its afternoon meeting series (see slides and recordings at http://www.iskouk.org/events.htm) as well as its very successful second biennial conference (http://www.iskouk.org/conf2011/index.htm) earlier this year.