Wednesday, June 29, 2011

i2b2 AUG in Boston

The first annual i2b2 meeting was kicked off today (6/28) at noon at Harvard Medical School. After my introduction, Shawn Murphy provided the current roadmap and answered specific technical questions. Robert Plenge described the genomic studies in rheumatoid arthritis, preliminary results regarding cardiovascular disease

Bill Adams described his HOME (Health Outcome Monitoring and Evaluation) cell for i2b2 and had the temerity to run a live demonstration. They developed 21 measures around healthcare outcomes (e.g. lipid control, smoking cessation) and implemented these within i2b2. There was a good sidebar conversation with Shawn Murphy of the role of the core i2b2 team in supporting these new developments.

Keith Marsolo described talked about chart review with i2b2 and the use of i2b2 as a registry (for liver transplant). He too ran a live demonstration.

The onco-i2b2 project was described by our colleagues from Unversity of Pavia.

Brian Wilson described a new data exchange infrastructure and message queues to support LIMS of various stripes as well as genomic annotation pipelines. He also bravely demonstrated his listener dipatching/queueing functionality.

There were then a flurry of very technical discussions which engaged the developer and user community in detail. By mid morning on Wednesday, we started to discuss the relevance the of the SMART project to i2b2 which independently is generating a large developer community.Annual AUG meeting

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