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New Web Technologies to Support Health Care and Life Sciences

New Web Technologies to Support Health Care and Life Sciences. October 2007 Steve Bratt ( steve@w3.org ) Chief Executive Officer World Wide Web Consortium http://www.w3.org/. This presentation: on the Web. http://www.w3.org/2007/Talks/1004-sb-IntroAndHCLS/Intro.pdf.

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New Web Technologies to Support Health Care and Life Sciences

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  1. New Web Technologies to SupportHealth Care and Life Sciences October 2007 Steve Bratt (steve@w3.org) Chief Executive OfficerWorld Wide Web Consortium http://www.w3.org/ This presentation: on the Web http://www.w3.org/2007/Talks/1004-sb-IntroAndHCLS/Intro.pdf

  2. IT Challenges for Health Care and Life Sciences Organizations (and most others) • Domain-specific terminology • Interfacing and interoperability • Legacy systems and data • Risk management • Competition and efficiency • Mergers and acquisitions • Corporate governance • Relationship management • Security • Globalization • Leveraging IT -- a challenge in itself! • XML, SOA, WS, mobile, semantics and more ...

  3. W3C Can Help You to … Make it (your content, data, services) • Standard • Accessible • Mobile • Web 2.0 • Web 3.0 • Useful

  4. Make … Standard Why? • Broad industry agreement (if done right) • Interoperability ... cross -app, -org, -data • Avoids vendor lock-in ... for providers and users • Open access = no black boxes • Mandated ... by customers, government • Royalty-free standards = good business sense

  5. The Leading Web Standards Organization • Engineering the Web’s foundation • 1000+ technologists in 60 groups, working on (x)HTML, XML, CSS, Web Services, and tens of emerging standards • 440 Members • 40+ Liaisons • 20 Offices • Newest: India, • China, S. Africa http://www.w3.org/

  6. Why Participate in W3C? Saying in China*: "Third-class companies make products; second-class companies develop technology; first-class companies set standards." • Leadership • Introduce ideas through submissions, workshops, Incubator Groups • Influence standards through Working Groups, review, implementation • Early insight into market trends • Access world's foremost Web technologists from Member & Team • Plan for emerging technologies & markets through Member access • Promoting image as innovator • Participate in int’l media activities, press releases, testimonials • Display logo on W3C site (300K visits/day) and W3C logo on your site (Membership / Benefits/ How to join W3C / "At a Glance" brochure) * from "China’s Post-WTO Technology Policy: Standards, Software and the Changing Nature of Techno-Nationalism", by Richard P. Suttmeier and Yao Xiangkui.

  7. Make it … Accessible Access for people with disabilities and an aging population ... • Web usage continues to expand • Barriers for millions with disabilities • Aging population = more disabled with age • Often required (US regs, legal action) • Huge carry-over benefits Developing a Web Accessibility Business Case • Web Accessibility Initiative @ W3C • NewWeb Content Accessibility Guidelines 2.0 soon

  8. Make it … Mobile • 2 billion people own mobile phones with Web browsers • 300-400 million are actively used • 2-3 million new mobile phones sold / day • Most new phones will continue to include simple Web browsers • Potential for bringing the Web to more people is huge • Graphic: Nokia

  9. Mobile Web Initiative • Mobile Web Best Practices 1.0(Summary) • Authoring content for good user experience • Effective delivery to and display on all mobile devices • Leveraging existing Web standards • Checker: http://www.w3.org/Mobile/check • Related Working Groups • Device Description • Ubiquitous Web Applications • Developing Countries

  10. Make it … Web 2.0 • Web 2.0 • Users are authors • Dynamic interaction • Web 2.0 @ W3C = Rich Web Clients Activity • Starting with existing W3C standards & javascript • New HTML WG bringing most important spec up to date • DOM, CSS, SVG, are critical elements • Plus new standardization of work in the field • AJAX (XMLHTTPRequest object) and other JS features • Widget packaging and delivery format, etc. • Considering security, especially re: javascript use

  11. Make it … Web 3.0 (Semantic Web) • Web 1.0 = Linked Documents • Web 3.0* = Linked Data (Semantic Web) • Web becomes a global, relational database • Semantic Web Activity @ W3C • Query, Rules, Content Labeling, Case Studies and Use Cases *New York Times, InternetNews Property Where Subjects, Properties, Values can each have their own URLs, and thus are universally unique and linkable across the Web Subject Value

  12. Make it … Useful • Increasing focus on end users • Supports application of standards to real, important problem • Improves standards: Use cases, requirements, implementation, testing • Health Care and Life Sciences • "use of Semantic Web technologies ... to improve collaboration, research and development, and innovation adoption" • Interest in other verticals • Financial services, eGoverment, media, transportation, etc.

  13. Informatics Interoperability:Current Situation • Interoperability barriers are abundant • Millions wasted on low-value-added workarounds. User learning curves are high, adoption is low.

  14. Value of Semantic Web to the Health Care / Life Sciences • Semantic Web technologies offer common data model to ... • ... to support domain-specific knowledge, vocabularies, taxonomies, etc. • ... and make it easier for cross-domain understanding, searching, sharing, re-use, aggregating, and extending information • "Masters of the Semantic Web" (17 Oct 2005) • Science and the Semantic Web: J. Hendler, Science, Vol 299, Issue 5606, 520-521 , 24 January 2003 • By embedding semantics, researchers will be able to: • Find cures to diseases • Make drugs safer and more affordable • Enable health-care providers to offer individualized care for patients • etc., etc., etc.

  15. Informatics Interoperability:Based on Semantic Web Standards • Interoperability: n. The ability of software and hardware from multiple providers on multiple machines to communicate • Better-informed users, decision making, prediction, automation.

  16. Value of Health Care / Life Sciences to Semantic Web • Analogy? • Life Sciences : Semantic Web = Physics : Web • Challenging problem • Interested community • Interoperable Informatics Infrastructure Consortium (I3C) asked for W3C's help • Successful W3C Workshop in October 2004 • Great testbed for new Semantic technologies

  17. W3C's Semantic Web for Health Care and Life Sciences • Semantic Web Health Care and Life Sciences IG • Chairs: Tonya Hongsermeier (Partners), Eric Neumann (Teranode) • First face-to-face meeting in January 2006 • ~70 participants from 35+ organizations, including: • Agfa, AstraZeneca, Cleveland Clinic, Eli Lilly, HL7, IBM, Merck, MITRE, Oracle, Partners, Pfizer, Science Commons, Siemens, Teranode, U. Manchester, Yale • Charter: .. use of Semantic Web technologies and practices to improve collaboration, r&d, innovation adoption from bench to bedside • Task Forces working. Rechartering underway now.

  18. For more information http://www.w3.org/ • W3C Membership:http://www.w3.org/Consortium/membership • How to become a W3C Member:http://www.w3.org/Consortium/join

  19. Selected References • W3C: http://www.w3.org/ • Mobile Web: http://www.w3.org/Mobile/ • Ubiquitous Web: http://www.w3.org/2006/10/uwa-activity-proposal.html • Labeling: http://www.w3.org/2007/powder/ • Voice: http://www.w3.org/Voice/ • Multimodal: http://www.w3.org/2002/mmi/ • Accessibility: http://www.w3.org/WAI/ • Internationalization: http://www.w3.org/International/ • Developing Countries: http://www.w3.org/2006/12/digital_divide/public.html • Semantic Web: http://www.w3.org/2001/sw/ • Security: http://www.w3.org/Security/

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