Health Web Science Definition, Scope, and How It Complements Medicine 2.0 Presented by: Joanne S. Luciano, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Troy, United

Health Web ScienceDefinition, Scope, and

How It Complements Medicine 2.0Presented by:

Joanne S. Luciano, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Troy, United States

Christopher J. O. Baker, University of New Brunswick, Canada

Grant Cumming, National Health Service, Morray, United Kingdom

Eva Kahana, Case Western Reserve University, Clevland, United States

Full Abstract

http://www.medicine20congress.com/ocs/index.php/med/med2012/paper/view/1030

Joanne Luciano

Research (Not Business)

• The Web needs to be studied to understand it and its impact

• The Web needs to be engineered to meet our demands

• The Web needs to be responsive to societal, political, and educational needs

What is Web Science?

• Web science, is the science of analysis and synthesis of the World Wide Web and its impact (Berners-Lee, et al, 2006)

— Multi discipline approach to understanding the web as it exists, and how to best build and engineer its future.

— Focus on new methodologies and methods, web topology, use, policies, and governance.



Web Science is a process in both understanding how the web works, and how to best engineer it.

Due to the various levels at which Web technology interacts with human society mean that inter-disciplinary approach is needed to understand it.

New methods for modeling, analyzing and understanding the Web at the various micro and macroscopic levels

What needs to be preserved and what can be improved? Web sociology

Virtual Communities, Social Network Analysis, incentive/participation, identity, Social MachinesTrust and reputationFormal/informal trust and reputation systems (i.e. Ebay vs Wikipedia)Web morality(engineering - robots.txt, legal and policy copyright, privacy, community standards, what is good behavior on the web?)

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Translational Medicine

• Rapid transformation of laboratory findings into clinically focused applications

• ‘From bench to bedside and back’

Why Health Web Science?

The Web became a health related resource

• Research• Basic life science• Clinical research • Clinical practice

• Information seeking for diagnostic and treatment• For their own health• For the health of others

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Why Health Web Science?

• Social Support• Financial Support• Governance; policy, privacy, trust,

enforcement• Violations - Issues of privacy, abuse,

security

The dark side

Health Web Science

Health Web Science’s scope parallels that of Web Science but with a health remit- to understand how the web shapes and is shaped by medicine and healthcare and individuals.

• Studies the Web and technologies that use the Internet, their emergent properties and how these are being and can be harnessed or held in check, and by whom, to benefit society in the area of human health.

• Studies how the Web can be engineered or developed in relation to health, medicine and healthcare.

Times have changed

• The end of the blockbuster era • The right treatment1 to the right

patient at the right time• Drug development cost too much• Expect medicine to cure all• Aging population• Increasing health care costs• Technology (Web and Mobile)• Marketing drugs to consumers (US)• Shifts (see next slide)

9Photo: http://www.flickr.com/photos/sepblog/4014143391/

1Treatment includes non-drug therapies

The Singularity

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“While it took 2,300 years after the first report of angina for the condition to be commonly taught in medical curricula…

the trend still appears to be linear, approaching the axis around 2025.”

The Healthcare Singularity and the Age of Semantic Medicine, Michael Gillam, et al, The Fourth Paradigm: Data-Intensive Scientific Discovery Tony Hey (Editor), 2009

http://www.amazon.com/s/ref=ntt_athr_dp_sr_1?_encoding=UTF8&sort=relevancerank&search-alias=books&ie=UTF8&field-author=Tony%20Hey

Discussion

• What does health care 2025 look like?

• What does a student or grad student in 2025 need

to know to meet the demands of a new “health

care system”?

• How will the population have changed?

• What tools and methodologies will they need to

know?

• What are the boundaries of Health Web Science?

BACKUP SLIDES

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CONTEXT

20091993

World Congress on

Neural Networks, July 11-15,

1993, Portland, Oregon

SIGMental

Function andDysfunctionSam Levin

Jackie Samson,Mc Lean Hospital

Depression

Research

1996

1995

20081994

Patents Soldto

Advanced Biological

Laboratories

Belgium

Patents Offered at

Ocean Tomo

Auction Chicago, IL

US Patent No.

6,317,73Awarded

US PatentsNo.

6,063,028Awarded

2001

2000

PhDThesis

Proposal Approved

Workshop Neural

Modeling of

Cognitive and Brain Disorders

BioPAX

?Linked Data

W3C HCLSBioDASH

EPOS

2006

EMPWR

Poster Presented ISMB 1997PSB 1998

1997


Take Home Message(AMIA 2010)

We need to shorten the time

tighten the loop between research and practice;

15 years + is too long,

way too long

How we use The Web today

Mark D Wilkinson, 2012 http://www.slideshare.net/markmoby/web-science-sadi-and-the-singularity


By clicking here you cause this incredibly powerful computational tool called The

Web to retrieve a chunk of text and images that can only be understood by a

human...


The Web is not a pigeon!


SADI SEMANTIC WEB SERVICES

Data federation over semantically annotated resources (databases and algorithms) using a an intelligent rule based search engine.

http://ca.linkedin.com/in/christopherjobaker

http://ca.linkedin.com/in/christopherjobaker

Web Driven Medicine:

Significant Shifts• Data, Not Programs

(Data and Data Science)

• Sharing, Not Hoarding (The Web)

• Individuals, Not Populations

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Overview

I. Web Science

II. Health Web Science

III. Future Directions

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What Is Web Science?

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Web Science is the science of decentralized information systems. It is required both as a way to understand the Web, and as a way to focus its development on key communicational and representational requirements.*

*T. Berners-Lee, W. Hall, J. Hendler, K. O’Hara, N. Shadbolt & D. Weitzner. “A Framework for Web Science”. 2006.

Web ofDocuments Social Web

Semantic Web of

Linked Data

Transformation Web Use

“Linking Open Data cloud diagram, by Richard Cyganiak and Anja Jentzsch. http://lod-cloud.net/”