John Sharp is an IT Manager for a major medical center in Northeast Ohio. Areas of expertise include: ehealth, personal health records, Web 2.0 technologies, social media and project management. He is active in the Healthcare Information Management and Systems Society and the American Medical Informatics Association. The opinions expressed on this blog are those of the author.
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Archive for February 14th, 2007
Web 3.0 – Hype or Reality
February 14, 2007
Now that the concept of Web 2.0 has been around for a while (in internet time), there is a growing buzz about 3.0. The Web 3.0 blog delivers a manifesto on the next level – the semantic web where Artificial Intelligence agents go beyond Web Services “…with the help of artificial intelligence and the integration of The Human Computing Layer, will allow us to cooperatively solve a class of problems normally reserved for specialized applications found in the areas of complex pattern recognition and high level semantic analysis.”
Heady stuff. Yet worth considering for healthcare. Intelligent agents and semantics (or taxonomy) is essential in taking ehealth to the next level. With all the advantages of Web 2.0 tagging and social networks, the volume of data is exploding and we need agents to semantically organize our knowledge whether it is about a personal illness or condition or one we are research a treatment for.
