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Sharing their passion for the Semantic Web at the Bio-IT World Life Sciences Conference + Expo session on Tuesday were several prominent leaders of the movement.

Providing a clinical perspective was Tonya Hongsermeier of Partners Healthcare, who said the Semantic Web is necessary for knowledge management because “the market is balking at healthcare inflation.” She said eight datapoints are now kept for each patient (age, height, weight, etc.), but with new tests and personalized medicine, the number could balloon to 3000. The Semantic Web can reduce the cost and liability of knowledge management, said Hongsermeier, and is a critical component of translational medicine going forward.

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