[rules-users] Drools & jBPM Boot Camp (Healthcare Focus) : San Francisco Oct 2011

Mark Proctor mproctor at codehaus.org
Wed Oct 12 14:19:58 EDT 2011


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As previously reported 
<http://blog.athico.com/2011/09/drools-jbpm-boot-camp-healthcare-focus.html>the 
date is very close now for RulesFest <http://rulesfest.org>as well as 
the co-located Drools & jBPM tech and healthcare days.

Spaces are filling up fast, so register quickly!!! We have a full 
plethora of speakers and talks now. Please take a look at the updated 
details below, for a full list of talks and speaker bios.

You can get the most up to date information from the wiki page (which is 
copied below):
http://community.jboss.org/wiki/DroolsJBPMBootCampHealthcareFocusSanFranciscoOct2011

Mark

  * Logistics
    <http://community.jboss.org/wiki/DroolsJBPMBootCampHealthcareFocusSanFranciscoOct2011#Logistics>

  * Previous Boot Camps
    <http://community.jboss.org/wiki/DroolsJBPMBootCampHealthcareFocusSanFranciscoOct2011#Previous_Boot_Camps>

  * Agenda
    <http://community.jboss.org/wiki/DroolsJBPMBootCampHealthcareFocusSanFranciscoOct2011#Agenda>

          + Mon - Wed (Rules Fest)
            <http://community.jboss.org/wiki/DroolsJBPMBootCampHealthcareFocusSanFranciscoOct2011#Mon__Wed_Rules_Fest>

          + Thu (Drools & jBPM, Free)
            <http://community.jboss.org/wiki/DroolsJBPMBootCampHealthcareFocusSanFranciscoOct2011#Thu_Drools__jBPM_Free>

          + Fri (Drools & jBPM & Healthcare, Free)
            <http://community.jboss.org/wiki/DroolsJBPMBootCampHealthcareFocusSanFranciscoOct2011#Fri_Drools__jBPM__Healthcare_Free>

  * Speaker Bios
    <http://community.jboss.org/wiki/DroolsJBPMBootCampHealthcareFocusSanFranciscoOct2011#Speaker_Bios>

          + Emory Fry
            <http://community.jboss.org/wiki/DroolsJBPMBootCampHealthcareFocusSanFranciscoOct2011#Emory_Fry>

          + Nathan Bell
            <http://community.jboss.org/wiki/DroolsJBPMBootCampHealthcareFocusSanFranciscoOct2011#Nathan_Bell>

          + Dave Walsh
            <http://community.jboss.org/wiki/DroolsJBPMBootCampHealthcareFocusSanFranciscoOct2011#Dave_Walsh>

          + John Koisch
            <http://community.jboss.org/wiki/DroolsJBPMBootCampHealthcareFocusSanFranciscoOct2011#John_Koisch>

          + Diego Naya
            <http://community.jboss.org/wiki/DroolsJBPMBootCampHealthcareFocusSanFranciscoOct2011#Diego_Naya>

          + Davide Sottara
            <http://community.jboss.org/wiki/DroolsJBPMBootCampHealthcareFocusSanFranciscoOct2011#Davide_Sottara>

          + Mauricio Salatino
            <http://community.jboss.org/wiki/DroolsJBPMBootCampHealthcareFocusSanFranciscoOct2011#Mauricio_Salatino>

          + Mark Proctor
            <http://community.jboss.org/wiki/DroolsJBPMBootCampHealthcareFocusSanFranciscoOct2011#Mark_Proctor>

          + Kris Verlaenen
            <http://community.jboss.org/wiki/DroolsJBPMBootCampHealthcareFocusSanFranciscoOct2011#Kris_Verlaenen>

          + Edson Tirelli
            <http://community.jboss.org/wiki/DroolsJBPMBootCampHealthcareFocusSanFranciscoOct2011#Edson_Tirelli>

          + Ray Ploski
            <http://community.jboss.org/wiki/DroolsJBPMBootCampHealthcareFocusSanFranciscoOct2011#Ray_Ploski>


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*The Drools & jBPM event is free, but you MUST BE REGISTERED to attend. 
Registration is from the main rulesfest website, here - 
<http://rulesfest.org/html/registration.html>http://rulesfest.org/html/registration.html. 
<http://rulesfest.org/html/registration.html>*


  Logistics

*Where*

  * Hyatt Regency, Burlingame, San Francisco, CA

*When*

  * Rules Fest - October 2011 - Mon 24th to Wed 26th
  * Drools & jBPM Boot Camp - October 2011 - Thu 27th to Fri 28th
      o Thu general tech for Drools & jBPM rules, workflow, event
        processing, ontologies
      o Fri Healthcare focus

*What*

  * Rules Fest
      o General reasoning technologies, rules, workflow, agents,
        ontologies, uncertainty.
  * Drools & jBPM Boot Camp
      o Thu general tech for Drools & jBPM rules, workflow, event
        processing, ontologies
      o Fri Healthcare focus

*Time
*

  * Monday to Friday 9am to 6pm

*Price*

  * Rules Fest (Mon - Wed) see here -
    <http://rulesfest.org/html/registration.html>http://rulesfest.org/html/registration.html
  * Drools & jBPM Boot camps (Thu - Fri) *FREE*
      o The event is free, but you must be registered to attend here -
        <http://rulesfest.org/html/registration.html>http://rulesfest.org/html/registration.html

*Accomodation*

  * Discounted Room block available, see here -
    <http://rulesfest.org/html/registration.html>http://rulesfest.org/html/registration.html

*Contact Details*

  * Rules Fest - Jason Morris - info at rulesfest d0t org
  * Drools & jBPM (general) - Prakash Aradhya - paradhya at redhat d0t com
  * Drools & jBPM (technical) - Mark Proctor - mproctor at codehaus d0t com


  Previous Boot Camps

Drools Boot Camp : San Diego April 2010 
<http://community.jboss.org/docs/DOC-14964>

Drools Boot Camp : San Francisco June 2009 
<http://community.jboss.org/docs/DOC-13468>


  Agenda


      *Mon - Wed (Rules Fest)*

General talks covering a variety of topics related to reasoning systems, 
rules, workflow, agents, ontologies, uncertainty.

Paul Haley will give the key note (not to be missed) "Paul Haley to 
Keynote Rules Fest" 
<http://blog.athico.com/2011/07/paul-haley-to-keynote-rules-fest.html>.

Rest of agenda see here http://rulesfest.org/html/agenda.html <http:///>


      *Thu (Drools & jBPM, Free)
      *

General Drools & jBPM day with presenters from Red Hat and core 
community members. This day is suitable for all and will provide an 
introduction and overview to Drools and jBPM and how they are used.

*Name
* 	*Company
* 	*Subject* 	*Presentation Title*
Mark Proctor 	Red Hat 	Drools Expert
(rules) 	Introduction to what a Rule Engine is and the capabilities of 
Drools Expert. This will cover both the Drools technical language and 
Decision Table theory.
EdsonTirelli 	Red Hat 	Drools Fusion (CEP) 	Complex Event Processing 
facilitates event correlation and temporal comparison. Fusion extends 
Drools to provide capabilities. Come learn what , what type of problems 
it helps solve and how it's done with Drools.

Mauricio

Salatno

	Plugtree 	jBPM
(workflow) 	Introduction to what BPMN2 is, why it matters and how jBPM 
works.
Ray Ploski 	Red Hat 	

Guvnor

(web tooling/brms)

	Guvnor provides server side knowledge mangement, authoring and 
deployment capalities. This talk introduces these conts and provides 
live demos of everything coming together.
Davide Sottara 	US Navy Healthcare 	

Drools Expert

(Semantics and Ontologies)

	What are semantic ontologies and what research is underway with Drools 
to help. Will also introduce the base foundation of Traits, which 
provides dynamic and type safe duck typing.
Mark Proctor 	Red Hat 	

Drools Expert

(rules)

	Learn how to write Adventure games with Drools.


      *Fri **(Drools & jBPM & Healthcare, Free)*

Healthcare focus, especially clinical. This day will be predominantly 
industry lead with professionals doing most of the talks. None 
healthcare people are welcome to join, but be aware that this day is 
specialised for a focus on healthcare problems.

Titles and abstracts are still being fleshed out and subject to change, 
check back regularly for changes.

*Name
* 	*Company
* 	*Presentation Title and Abstract
*
Emory Fry 	US Navy Healthcare 	

*Drools Enhancements In Support of Real-Time Clinical Decision Support.*

Distributed Decision Support Services and Knowledge Management 
Repository (KMR-II) is a second generation Clinical Decision Support 
(CDS) platform for healthcare environments. This presentation will 
provide a brief overview of the overall architecture and then discuss in 
more detail specific enhancements to Drools that enables it to better 
support rule execution using standards-based object models, semantics, 
and data structures. KMR extends Drools with PredictiveModel Markup 
Language (PMML), Grid Services, and Semantic Web technologies within an 
agent architecture. KMR-II provides integrated knowledge management, 
analytic, and predictive modeling capabilities critical to the immediate 
and long-term care of our patients. As a sophisticated, standards-based 
Clinical Decision Support environment, it is uniquely suited to deliver 
"knowledge services" that can be layered on a variety of health 
information networks.

Diego Naya 	OSDE 	*Improving Healthcare customer service with Drools and 
jBPM5*

Mauricio

Salatino

	Plugtree 	

*Emergency Services in action.*

The application was created to represent complex scenarios that are 
being exe-cuted by an Emergency Services company that deals with 
concurrent emergencies within a city. The company needs to solve 
different situations where different entities need to be coordinated to 
deal with an emergency situation. The Emergency Services Application 
shows how we can provide a tool that helps the company to improve their 
services by giving them full visibility of their actions, traceability 
of their resources, suggestions and advice based on the con-text without 
sacrifficing any degree of exibility that they need to solve real life 
situations.

Nathan Bell 	Pharmacy OneSource 	

*Speed Saves Lives: Leveraging a massively parallel expert system for 
patient surveillance*

Pharmacy OneSource is a SaaS provider of applications for hospital 
pharmacy and infection prevention professionals. This case study will 
discuss the steps taken to develop a next-generation patient 
surveillance platform that allows clinicians to accurately detect risk 
factors, and perform interventions. The platform leverages the 
GigaSpaces implementation of Tuple-space and the Drools rule engine to 
create a massively parallel expert system. This architecture allows for 
customizable handling of millions of HL7 messages per day, evaluation of 
thousands of clinician created business rules, and reasoning over 
hundreds of thousands of patient data facts to provide near-real-time 
surveillance.

Dave Walsh 	eServices Group 	

*Medicare and Medicaid look to rules for the future of healthcare*

The Center for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS), an agency of the 
Federal government, has aggressive plans to modernize healthcare 
administrative systems and Electronic Healthcare Records (EHR).

The use of Rules and Business Process Management are a focal point for 
the new systems. This session will describe how Medicare and Medicaid 
work and how the government (Federal and State) is looking for Rules and 
BPM to help change both the administrative and clinical environments. 
This session will look at the Medicaid Information Technology 
Architecture (MITA) and how Rules and BPM can augment this Service 
Oriented Architecture. We will discuss how to get involved in some of 
the many projects that are currently underway.

John Koisch 	Commence Partners 	

*Part 1 - Health IT, Informatics, and Rich Information Structures - 
working with ontologies in the Health space*

1.1) What Health IT is and what it isn't - why health IT is hard

1.2) Standards and Health IT - the RIM, vocabularies, CDA and 
standardizing information

1.3) The changing nature of Health IT - Disecting a typical health 
system design and why using ontologies makes sense

1.4) Why ontologies and information models are not enough - Why we need 
rule-based systems and architecture to build extensible IT solutions

*Part 2 - Ontologies for the working Health IT shop - working with 
ontologies in a development and production environment*

2.1) Examining system design - using ontologies and rule-based systems 
with rich information structures in a distributed setting

2.2) Why good developers have trouble in Health IT - where java and 
other frameworks are great, and where rich information ties you down

2.3) An example rule based system - dealing with DVT in a clinical setting

2.4) Towards an industrial-strength development framework - Working with 
ontologies and rules in health IT

Kris Verlaenen 	Red Hat 	

*Clinical Pathways for doing Clinical Decision Support (CDS)*

This presentation will describe how you can use /clinical pathways/ to 
describe the treatment of patients. The pathways are usually the 
combination of processes describing the overall plan (for example using 
a flow chart approach but other representations like a time-task-matrix 
are possible as well) and rules adding additional constraints. It takes 
advantages of some of the more advanced features of jBPM5 to create 
flexible and adaptive, domain-specific processes that integration 
closely with rules.*
*


  Speaker Bios


      Emory Fry

Emory Fry, MD, a neonatal intensive care specialist, has over 15 years 
of experience in the design and development of enterprise clinical 
information systems with a particular interest in cognitive science and 
clinical decision support, He is the Principle Investigator for both the 
Distributed Decision Support Services and Knowledge Management 
Repository (KMR) program and the real-time Closed-Loop Mechanical 
Ventilation initiative (SmartVent). His engineering team is actively 
enhancing the core Drools infrastructure for the purposes of creating an 
open-source real-time clinical decision support for healthcare. Current 
Drools projects include Drools Grid, terminology support, ontology 
integration, and a rule authoring workbench for clinical domain experts.


      Nathan Bell

Nathan is Principal Architect at Pharmacy OneSource (Wolters Kluwer 
Health), a provider of SaaS applications for hospital pharmacy and 
infection prevention professionals. He has designed and implemented 
mission critical, near-real-time, high transaction volume systems in 
several industries including financial, medical, defense and 
telecommunications. He is currently involved in various projects within 
Wolters Kluwer Health to apply business rules technology to clinical 
decision support systems at the point of care.


      Dave Walsh

Dave Walsh is CEO of eServices Group. eServices Group is a software 
development firm focused on supplying software products to meet the 
needs of Medicaid and Medicare for over 18 years. Mr. Walsh also chairs 
the MITA Technical Architecture Committee (TAC). The TAC is an industry 
collaborative that is focused on supporting the Federal government and 
States in the definition of the next generation Medicaid systems based 
on SOA, BPM and rules.


      John Koisch

John Koisch has over 16 years of experience in information technology 
with 8 in healthcare IT. He has pioneered efforts at bringing health IT 
standards into the development space. John has worked at the strategic 
levels of a number of organizations, and has led architects and 
developers in a variety of health and life science integration projects. 
He is a principal in Guidewire, and directs its research efforts, 
product development, and standards engagements.

Prior to joining Guidewire, John has held a variety of leadership and 
development roles in healthcare IT and standarards development 
organizations. He has developed a contract-driven development and system 
specification framework. He designed and led development in a Service 
Oriented Architecture to the DoD's Western Regional Medical Command. In 
addition to application architecture, he also contributed to the DOD's 
CDA Implementation Guide, participates in HL7 actively on various 
service-oriented projects, and has developed a framework for binding web 
services to HL7's rich information models.

John has a bachelor's degree in physics / astronomy, with focuses on 
math from Texas Christian University and is certified in a number of 
relevant technologies.


      Diego Naya

Diego Naya is the Application Development Manager for OSDE, Argentina's 
biggest healthecare company. He has extensive experience in BPMS and 
BRMS implementation in the healthcare industry. Diego wrote the book 
"OSWorkflow: A guide for implementing Business Processes" and several 
related articles.

Mauricio Salatino


      Davide Sottara

Davide is currently working as an independent private consultant and as 
a post-doc researcher at the University of Bologna, being involved the 
development of remote health-care systems, enhanced with AI-based 
predictive, diagnostic and planning features.

In 2006, he has been awarded a SPINNER grant from the region Emilia 
Romagna, attending a post-graduate course in "Research, Innovation and 
Technology Transfer". Since 2006, he has been working on the development 
of intelligent DSSs in the environmental (in cooperation with the 
Italian National Agency for the Energy, Environment and New 
Technologies) and medical field and is a member of the Drools Community, 
leading a sub-project on the extension of production rule engines to 
support uncertain and fuzzy reasoning.

Davide Sottara got his Ms. Degree (2006) and his Ph.D (2010) in Computer 
Science, Electronics and Telecommunications from the University of 
Bologna. His research and development interests include artificial 
intelligence in general and decision support systems in particular, 
focusing on hybrid systems combining predictive models and rule-based 
systems.


      Mauricio Salatino

Mauricio has been a Drools and jBPM5 Community Contributor for more than 
three years now. As CTO of Plug Tree, he has been an active community 
member, trainer, developer and Open Source Software Evangelist.

Mauricio is the author of the /jBPM Developer Guide for Packt Publishing 
(2009)/. He was a JBoss Community Award Winner 2011 (New Features -- Bug 
Fixes).

blog: http://salaboy.wordpress.com <http://salaboy.wordpress.com/>


      Mark Proctor

Mark Proctor received his B.S. Eng. in Engineer Science and Technology 
and then his M.S. in Business and Information Systems; both from Brunel 
University, West London. His M.S. thesis was in the field of Genetic 
Algorithms; which is where he first got his interest for anything AI 
related.

Mark became involved in the Drools expert system project at an early 
stage and soon became its project lead. Mark then joined JBoss (later 
acquired by RedHat) as an employee when the Drools project was federated 
into the JBoss JEMS stack.

Having developed a powerful expert system, Mark is now turning his 
attention to other declarative paradigms in an effort to unify them to 
allow for richer domain modeling environments.


      Kris Verlaenen

Kris is a Software Engineer at JBoss, by Red Hat, where he leads on the 
jBPM project (an open-source business process management (BPM) suite), 
and is also part of the Drools project (an open-source Java rules 
engine). The jBPM project consists of a lightweight workflow engine in 
Java that support native BPMN 2.0 execution and various tools and 
features around that to support business processes throughout their 
entire life cycle.

Kris did a PhD in Computer Science at the Katholieke Universiteit 
Leuven, Belgium. His main research area is policy-based management, i.e. 
using declarative policy rules for configuring services, resulting in 
highly-configurable, reusable services. He has experience and a great 
intrest in policy-based and rule-based systems, workflow management, 
service-oriented software development and clinical decision support.


      Edson Tirelli

Edson Tirelli is a Senior Software Engineer at Red Hat with over 10 
years of experience in the Middleware and Telecom Industries. He has 
been working on the Drools project (part of the JBoss Enterprise BRMS 
product) design and development for 5+ years and is the Lead Designer of 
the Drools Fusion CEP engine.


      Ray Ploski

Ray Ploski is the Director of Application Platforms and Developer 
Strategy for JBoss. He has been an active contributor, consultant, 
developer, architect and trainer aiding organizations and companies 
adopt open source for the past fifteen years. Ray has been regularly 
recognized for his contributions in advancing the adoption of open 
source and is one of the few Red Hat employees to have earned the 
Chairman's Award[1] . In his current role he is responsible for JBoss's 
evangelism and developer programs.

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