Data Mapping and Transformation – Applications in Healthcare Computing
Departmental seminar
- When?
- Wednesday 6 June 2012, 14:00 to 15:00
- Where?
- 39 BB 02
- Open to:
- Staff, Students, Public
- Speaker:
- Robert P Worden
The costs of delivering healthcare are made much higher by the poor level of integration between healthcare IT systems. Attempts to define information standards for the exchange of healthcare data, by international organisations such as Health Level 7 (HL7), have been at best partially successful. I describe an approach to integration based on semantic data mapping – mapping diverse data formats onto a common UML model of information, and automatically generating data transforms – which has the potential to reduce the cost and complexity of integrating healthcare IT systems. Progress in applying this approach in the UK is described.
Biography
Dr Robert Worden was trained as a research physicist before joining Logica in 1974. He developed and managed a commercial relational database management system, before joining Logica’s research centre at Cambridge, where he worked on artificial intelligence and software engineering, building medical expert systems. He later managed the Cambridge research centre, and has published papers on cognitive science and neuroscience. He developed the semantic approach to data integration and its applications to healthcare while working at Charteris, a business and IT consultancy company. He is now a director of HL7 UK, and manages Open Mapping Software Ltd, a company which supplies semantic integration tools for healthcare computing.
