The Healthcare Information Crisis: Medical Ontologies and the Challenge of Data Harmonization

November 12, 2021 -
2:30pm to 6:00pm

Christopher Chute
Bloomberg Distinguished Professor of Health Informatics and Professor of Medicine, Public Health, and Nursing
Johns Hopkins University

Zachary Ives
Department Chair and Adani President’s Distinguished Professor of Computer and Information Science
University of Pennsylvania

Harold Solbrig
​Mayo Clinic and Johns Hopkins University

Abstract: This symposium brings together leading experts in biomedical informatics and digital data integration with University of Chicago faculty in medicine and other departments to discuss an urgent problem in healthcare: how to combine disparate sources of digital information within a common ontological framework for automated querying and analysis, even when this data is recorded by healthcare professionals and researchers using divergent vocabularies and conceptual schemes. This problem becomes ever more pressing with the explosion of big data in medicine, as in other fields, and the failure to solve it is incurring enormous costs and inefficiencies. 

Sponsored by the University of Chicago Neubauer Collegium project An Organon for the Information Age

Location and Address

Online