AMIA 2012 Joint Summit: a report back in tweets

Eric, Leslie, and I from CTSI at UCSF’s Virtual Home team spent the past three days at the AMIA 2012 Joint Summit in San Francisco.

Here’s some of what was happening on the researcher networking, social networking, knowledge representation fronts, and public search front, via Twitter:

R. Divekar – Use of Google Insights for asthma surveillance across the country. http://t.co/t7WkBWt2 #tbicri12

— David Ruau (@druau) March 19, 2012

83% of doctors look at Google for information during visits. Patient and doc look at the same thing… #tbicri12

— David Ruau (@druau) March 21, 2012

Kesselman at #tbicri12 – the problem is not establishing ontologies, it's getting people to use them

— John Speakman (@speakman) March 22, 2012

Open mHealth architecture, now on Github http://t.co/9CJfChgb #tbicri12

— Anirvan Chatterjee (@anirvan) March 22, 2012

VIVO and Eagle-I projects come together http://t.co/qg1Z4dKV #tbicri12

— Anirvan Chatterjee (@anirvan) March 22, 2012

Use a research networking platform like VIVO/Profiles? Learn how UCSF used data reuse to drive ~1000 visits a day, at poster 7. #tbicri12

— Anirvan Chatterjee (@anirvan) March 22, 2012

Learn how to add #OpenSocial to Profiles, VIVO, etc. from the UCSF team that pioneered it. Poster 29. #tbicri12

— Anirvan Chatterjee (@anirvan) March 22, 2012

Had a good conversation with Elaine Collier about the role of OpenSocial in research networking and wide scale collaboration #tbicri12

— Eric Meeks (@eric_meeks) March 22, 2012

Bibliometrics, linked open data, and pretty social networking visualizations from Harvard Profiles. Woo! Poster 55. #tbicri12

— Anirvan Chatterjee (@anirvan) March 22, 2012

Best looking poster of the event: Wake Forest's adoption of OpenSocial in Profiles. Poster number 4. #tbicri12

— Anirvan Chatterjee (@anirvan) March 22, 2012

Hearing Kristi Holmes talk about @VIVOcollab searchlight bookmarklet. Neat! I want to try this. #tbicri12

— Anirvan Chatterjee (@anirvan) March 22, 2012

Profiles and @VIVOcollab love fest! Kristi Mitchell and Griffen Weber push coopetition, OpenSocial. #tbicri12

— Anirvan Chatterjee (@anirvan) March 22, 2012

The @CTSIatUCSF crew had a great day with the Profiles, @VIVOcollab, and Eagle-I communities. Open source collaboration at work! #TBICRI12

— Anirvan Chatterjee (@anirvan) March 23, 2012

Social networking study paper by Tweet et al. #BestLastNameEver http://t.co/MOZtzU0z #tbicri12

— Anirvan Chatterjee (@anirvan) March 23, 2012

Patients initiate research via a #SurveyMonkey survey on their blog. Is this what the future looks like? #tbicri12 pic.twitter.com/8IBJW2I5

— Anirvan Chatterjee (@anirvan) March 23, 2012

Other tweets that caught my eye from the rest of the conference:

Extract precise relations of gene/drug interaction in PubMed, create drug-gene-drug relationship to find drug interactions Altman #tbicri12

— Laura Wiley (@GenomeGal) March 20, 2012

Using google search logs to study allergies and health care #TBICRI12

— Nicholas Tatonetti (@nicktatonetti) March 19, 2012

Averages are a horrible way to represent data in networks! #TBICRI12

— David Ruau (@druau) March 19, 2012

Ironic that we don't have enough data to know how to handle all this data. #TBICRI12 #keynote

— Jessie Tenenbaum (@jessiet1023) March 20, 2012

bayesian network modeling for gene expression analysis in CM1 at #TBICRI12

— Nicholas Tatonetti (@nicktatonetti) March 20, 2012

You never start a project without a good acronym. #tootrue #tbicri12

— Laura Wiley (@GenomeGal) March 20, 2012

Love the title "superstar status for informaticians w/ social skills and lifetime employment even w/o social skills" #tootrue #tbicri12

— Laura Wiley (@GenomeGal) March 21, 2012

VA researcher finds that de-identification systems get confused when people have names like medical conditions. Poor Mr. Parkinson #tbicri12

— Anirvan Chatterjee (@anirvan) March 21, 2012

Posted my annual review of translational bioinformatics slides on my blog. #tbicri12 http://t.co/KM3Eix2K

— Russ Altman (@Rbaltman) March 22, 2012

Great work to provide a suite of NLP and Annotation tools: #iDASH http://t.co/LficH6MD #TBICRI12

— Carlo Torniai (@carlotorniai) March 22, 2012

Nice comparison of comprehending lengthy informed consents to comprehending iTunes user agreements by A. Boxwala #TBICRI12

— Douglas Wixted (@DouglasWixted) March 22, 2012

Papers up at http://t.co/chArscSu #tbicri12

— Anirvan Chatterjee (@anirvan) March 23, 2012

How to search PubMed for clinical research informatics, per Embi #tbicri12 pic.twitter.com/K9beacGt

— Anirvan Chatterjee (@anirvan) March 23, 2012

AACT: new DB built in top of http://t.co/9pncSt0o. Now an open project https://t.co/ILKcGgJ2 #tbicri12 pic.twitter.com/nrZFwJj0

— Anirvan Chatterjee (@anirvan) March 23, 2012