Jay Kola Email & Phone Number

• I am a medical informatician with a unique set of skills spanning medicine, healthcare standards, knowledge representation and software development. -- Before becoming a medical informatician, I was a doctor and also have a Masters in Bioinformatics. • I am well versed in medical terminologies like SNOMED CT, FMA, UMLS, etc and Description Logic & OWL, the logical formalism that underpins some of these terminologies. -- In the past, I've modelled biomedical ontologies in OWL for domains like cancer, drugs, psychiatric assessment, etc.• Experience of working with National EHR (and eHealth) initiatives in Sweden, Singapore and UK (NHS) on the development and implementation of terminology standards, especially SNOMED CT.• Elected member of IHTSDO Technical committee, ex Chair of SNOMED CT Implementation Special Interest Group and ex- member of Implementation & Innovation committee at IHTSDO (the organisation that owns SNOMED CT).• I am passionate about addressing the complex challenges associated with the adoption and implementation of healthcare standards in information systems. -- My recent work demonstrates how synthetic patient records encoded using SNOMED CT (including both pre and post-coordinated data) can be queried effectively and accurately.• I have a good understanding of Java, HTML5, JavaScript, XML, RDBMS, ORM and Semantic technologies. -- Lead developer of Snolex (https://snolex.com), a fast and intuitive online SNOMED CT browser and refset manager.-- Lead developer of Snofyre (http://code.google.com/p/snofyre/), a service oriented API for creating SNOMED CT enabled applications in Java.Specialties: SNOMED CT, Data interoperability, Electronic health records, Description Logic, Biomedical terminologies and ontologies, Java, OWL

Listed skills include Informatics, Snomed, Ehr, Healthcare Information Technology, and 38 others.