IBI Workgroups

Biomedical Ontologies

Faculty leader: Chris Stoeckert, Ph.D.

The goal of this workgroup is to review and discuss the latest advances in the development and implementation of ontologies for the integration and management of biomedical and clinical data at Penn Medicine. Ontologies are used to provide a framework for naming and defining data elements and their hierarchical relationships.

Natural Language Processing

Faculty leader: Brian Wells, MBA

The goal of this workgroup is to review and discuss the latest advances in the development and implementation of natural language processing (NLP) for the analysis and interpretation of text derived from the electronic health record (EHR) or other sources, such as social media. Penn Medicine now has a commercial license to an NLP software package called Linguamatics.

Statistics Issues in EHR Data

Faculty leader: Jinbo Chen, Ph.D.