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Interoperability: joining up knowledge and information in the health sector Tuesday 1st November (14.00-19.00) Marlborough Theatre, King’s Fund W1G 0AN In this ISKO UK meeting, held appropriately on the premises of The King's Fund, we will be looking at several important emerging areas of Health Informatics practice. The focus will be on how clinical information is recorded, encoded for storage and retrieval, purged of ambiguity, imbued with relevance to patient and practitioner alike, and linked up to the universe of biomedical knowledge. You will find the programme and other details of the event, and can register via the ISKO UK site at http://www.iskouk.org/events/health_nov2011.htm . 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, Cavendish Square, London W1G 0AN. Registration opens at 1.45 and we shall start promptly at 2 p.m. The programme includes these topics: • 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. Please accept our apologies for cross and repeat posting. We look forward to seeing you there. Fran Huckle Secretary ISKO UK