The Impact Of The Web On Health – Health Experts Take To The Stage At WWW2006
February 25th, 2006 | Published in Business, Events, Health, News, Technology | 4 Comments
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The final day of the conference is entitled ‘The Impact of the Web on Health’ and scrutinizes the way the net has revolutionised the relationship between health professionals and the general public.
Delegates will hear speeches on patient confidentiality, the impact of the Semantic Web on healthcare and the use and management of healthcare information via the Internet.
A keynote address will be given by Richard Granger, Director General of IT for the NHS, on the modernisation of their IT programme.
Also speaking are Sir Michael Rawlings, Chairman of the UK National Institute for Health and Clinical Excellence, Alan Rector, Professor of Medical Informatics at the University of Manchester and Celia Boyer, executive director of the Health on the Net Foundation.
The medical theme continues through the W3C tracks and tutorials with the topics tackling the role of technology in the flow of healthcare innovation, the development of Semantic Web rules and social information spaces, and internationalisation techniques.
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March 1st, 2006 at 1:15 pm (#)
This is great stuff. I’m wondering when this will get into the main stream.
March 1st, 2006 at 2:06 pm (#)
2006 looks like the year that many companies will start to apply some Semantic Web technologies in a very limited fashion via internal business solutions, SOA, ERP, etc. Forrester Research recently reported that the information quality market is on target to top $1 billion by 2008.
March 6th, 2006 at 7:01 am (#)
I wonder if all the money is in Healthcare or is it technology?
March 6th, 2006 at 9:25 am (#)
Trends indicate that the healthcare and life science industries are the earliest adopters, and thus, the largest markets for Semantic Web Technologies. But, as better tools and a clearer understanding of how to apply various applications to different business models develop, I anticipate seeing this technology cross all markets.
The Semantic Web will be as encompassing as the current web is today.