June 21-22, 2004
Natcher Conference Center
National Institutes of Health
Bethesda , Maryland

A symposium on "Biomedical Informatics for Clinical Decision Support: A Vision for the 21st Century" was conducted on June 21-22, 2004 at the Natcher Conference Center on the NIH Main Campus in Bethesda, Maryland. The Symposium was jointly conducted by the NIH's Bioengineering Consortium (BECON) and the Biomedical Information Science and Technology Consortium (BISTIC). The purpose of the meeting was to identify opportunities, needs, and directions for applying computer science and informatics principles and methods to clinical decision support. Specific areas covered during the meeting included data management (databases and digital libraries), enabling technologies (modeling, software tools, and techniques), and translational informatics. Approximately 400 people attended the symposium. NIH Co-Chairs were Drs. Laurence Clarke (NIH/NCI) and Peter Lyster (NIH/NIBIB), Extramural Co-Chairs were Drs. Ruzena Bajcsy (UC-Berkeley) and Michael Vannier (University of Chicago), and Organizational Co-Chairs were Mariaileen Sourwine (NIH/NIBIB) and Anna Retzke (NIH/NIBIB).

Materials presented in the plenary sessions and the preliminary recommendations from the breakout sessions are posted below. The final report will also be posted on this site in the near future.

SYMPOSIUM AGENDA

Agenda in (pdf) format or Word Format

VIDEOCAST OF PLENARY PRESENTATIONS

Day 1 - June 21, 2004 http://videocast.nih.gov/ram/becon062104a.ram
Day 2 - June 22, 2004 http://videocast.nih.gov/ram/becon062204.ram

PLENARY SESSIONS

Roadmap Presentation: - Stephen I. Katz (NIAMS)

Track 1 Clinician Decision-Making: Statement of the Problem
Cardiac Perspective: Pedro Del Nido (Children’s Hospital, Boston)
Cancer Perspective: - Laura Esserman (UCSF)
Integrating Biomedical Informatics: - Ted Shortliffe (Columbia)

Track 2 Data Management: Databases & Digital Libraries
The Integration of Phenotypic and Genotypic Data: - Michael Hehenberger (IBM Life Sciences)
Biomedical Imaging Perspective: - Maryellen Giger (U Chicago)
The Clinical Research and Regulatory Perspective: - Wayne Kubick (Lincoln Technologies, Inc.)

Track 3 Enabling Technologies: Modeling, Software Tools, & Techniques
Cardiac: - Physiological Modeling Perspective: Jim Bassingthwaighte (U Washington)
Lung Cancer Imaging: - Software Tools Perspective: Ricardo Avila (GE)
Genomics and Proteomics: Software Tools Perspective: - Isaac Kohane (Harvard Medical School)

Keynote Session
Translational Informatics Requirements: Genome Through the Phenotype

Informatics Infrastructure: - NIH perspective: Ken Buetow (NCI)
Molecular Biology Perspective: - Aravinda Chakravarti (Johns Hopkins U)

Summary of Recommendations and Discussion
Extramural Co-Chairs
Ruzena Bajcsy - (UC-Berkeley)
Michael Vannier - (University of Chicago)

BREAKOUT SESSIONS - PRELIMINARY RECOMMENDATIONS

Breakout Session 1:
Clinical Challenges and Related Software/Informatics Requirements - Moderator: Ted Shortliffe (Columbia)

Breakout Session 2:

Databases as Required for Assessment and Application of Software Tools - Moderator: Maryellen Giger (U Chicago)

Breakout Session 3: