All

Apologies for a broadcast, but I am hoping I can get a bit of help from a few of you. 

I have a student who is in the final year of her PhD . She is now in the evaluation phase of her project and needs a few more volunteers than we can provide locally to help her evaluate her project. 

The application focuses on identifying the SNOMED codes which semantically match clinical data held in clinical data models formulated using the OpenEHR Archetypes.  The system uses many different resources to takes into consideration the context in which it has been used in the model to help with maximising the search range.

What we need are volunteers who are prepared to spend around two hours  first learning about the system and then using it to identify the codes for a few preselected archetypes and then to critique the results.  Ideally, we would like some volunteers with a clinical background and some with a clinical systems IT background.   

We realise this is a significant time commitment.  Rahil will come to you at a time and place of your convenience.  The system runs on a laptop, so all that is needed is a bit of quiet space and time. 

It will significantly help her research assessment if people in the community could volunteer as evaluators. The evaluation would idealy be completed by the end of December 2006 to enable her to analyse the collected evaluation results and begin her thesis write up, but could run over into January if necessary.

Please contact  Rahil directly at qamarr@... if you are willing to evaluate the system.

Many thanks in advance. 

Alan Rector

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Alan Rector

Professor of Medical Informatics

School of Computer Science

University of Manchester

Manchester M13 9PL, UK

TEL +44 (0) 161 275 6149/6188

FAX +44 (0) 161 275 6204

www.cs.man.ac.uk/mig

www.clinical-esciences.org

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