Healthcare Semantic Architectures

See Pellet 2 Tutorial Available on clark&pasia website for:

“After some polishing based on feedback, we’re making the tutorial materials, including sample code, slides, and a bundled download of Pellet, available for use in learning (or teaching others) how to use Pellet, both interactively and programmatically.”

Thanks to unClog for a link to Deri link to a SVG map of the major semantic web ontologies.

A link to some key health care definitions in the news because of ARRA TITLE XIII. Article written by John Halamka in his blog entry A Healthcare IT Primer

Several many other people have commented on the article at: PWC Technology forecast: Spring 2009 Semantic Web for which you need to do a brief sign up.

The set of articles, which are a practical introduction to the semantic web, has a very pragmatic orientation. In particular there is an interview with Frank Chum of Chevron, starting on page 46, that summarizes very succinctly four of the benefits of the semantic web approach (emphasis added), as follows:

“…First, the Semantic Web lets you to be more expressive in the business logic, to add more contextual meaning. Second, it lets you be more flexible, so that you don’t have to have everything fully specified before you start building. Then, third, it allows you to do inferencing, so that you can perform discovery on the basis of rules and axions. Fourth, it improves the interoperability of systems, which allows you to share across the spectrum of the business ecosystem….”

The entire set of articles gives an excellent introduction from a business view of the benefits of the Semantic Web.

Excellent article on the basic concepts behind services: Grumpy Architect week: There is more to services than re-use by Brenda Michelson

It clearly summarizes the basic concepts that underlie any successful IT project life cycle (including a services project) with some very useful references to support the concepts.

Good article on medical cost reduction by Atul Gawande in the June 1, 2009 issue of the New Yorker: http://www.newyorker.com/reporting/2009/06/01/090601fafactgawande

Link to article on HSS guidance on ARRA with some good links to the guidance document and related NIST documents.

See http://www.healthleadersmedia.com/print/content/231837/topic/WSHLM2TEC/HHS-Issues-Draft-Guidance-on-Securing-PHI.html

Also refer to http://mashable.com/2009/04/25/track-swine-flu/ for additional links.

Link to Protege Community of Practice (CoP) wiki:  http://protege.cim3.net/cgi-bin/wiki.pl?WikiHomePage This is a major community of users, researchers, and developers who are using the Protege ontology-development environment.   Developed initially out of Stanford — see the following for an overview:  http://protege.stanford.edu/overview/

Thanks to unClog for a link to a Deri SVG Map of Major Semantic Web Ontologies.