Benefits to Healthcare and Lifesciences from Semantic Web Technologies…

• Reduce the cost, duration, risk of drug discovery

• • • Data integration, Knowledge integration, Visualization
    • Knowledge representation  New Knowledge Discovery

• Reduce the cost/duration/risk of clinical trial management

• • • Patient identification and referral
    • Trial design (ie to capture better safety surveillance)
    • Data quality and clinical outcomes measurement
    • Post-market surveillance

• Reduce the cost/duration/liability of knowledge acquisition and maintenance for clinical decision support and clinical performance measurement

• • • Knowledge provenance and representation
    • Conversion of “discovery algorithms” into “clinical practice algorithms”
    • Event-driven change management and propagation of change