[Ltg] HAIL Seminar(11 May): Dr Uma Srinivasan, CSIRO ICT

[Shijian.Lu at csiro.au]

                      H.A.I.L. Seminar series
                          CSIRO ICT Centre
                   http://www.ict.csiro.au/HAIL/


Title:          Health Data Integration

Speaker:        Dr Uma Srinivasan
		    Research Leader
  		    Health Data Integration
		    CSIRO ICT Centre
		    Canberra, ACT
 		    
Date:           Tuesday 11 May 2004 at 11am

Location:       CSIRO Conference Room,
                Building E6B, Macquarie University.

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Abstract

The goal of CSIRO's Health Data Integration (HDI) project is to provide the critical elements of a technology platform that integrates distributed health and social databases into a network from which to generate information to guide health policy and research. However, the task of performing any kind of analysis across them is beset with technical, organisational and ethical difficulties. The data collections are geographically dispersed, are built on a variety of technologies and have differing quality of attributes since they were designed for specific purposes. More importantly, many are under strict custodial control, which is essential to ensure ethical and legal use of the data collections and respect for the privacy of the individual from whom the data originates. 

In this talk, we will present the overall Service-oriented HDI architecture, and the researcher's workbench tool that brings together the linking, integration, and analytics services in a secure web services environment that protects data privacy and confidentiality.


Short resume

Uma Srinivasan is a Principal Research Scientist at CSIRO and is currently the Project Leader of the HDI Project which is part of CSIRO's Preventative-health Flagship program. Within the HDI project, Uma has been focussing on designing metadata services as part of the HDI vision. Uma's research background is in the areas of heterogeneous database interoperability, and multimedia information systems. 

Uma holds a PhD in Computer Science from UNSW, and serves as a reviewer and member of technical program committees for leading national and international conferences.


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