Transcript - Tetherless World Constellation

Scottish Healthcare
Advisors:
Elizabeth Brooks, University of Highlands and Islands, Scotland
Joanne S. Luciano, Tetherless World Constellation
Why e-Health?
e-Health has become an imperative
since health provision is unsustainable
because of:
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Need + Technology =
one possible approach?
“A perfect storm”
H=P4 = Cn Grant Cumming, MBChB, MD, MRCOG Consultant Obstetrician and Gynaecologist NHS
P4 Leroy Hood, Institute for Systems Biology
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Challenge
• Can the web
– Engage individuals in services provided via
the web?
– Personalize Health Applications and data
input via the web?
– Engage communities in services and as
communities on the web?
– How do we evaluate Health Web Services?
– What are the future directions of Health
services using the Web?
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Scottish Healthcare
• Check out the datasets at
http://scotland.gov.uk/Topics/Statistics/Brows
e/Health
• See other datasets
athttp://scotland.gov.uk/Topics/Statistics to try
to explain or see what may be effecting the
health and healthcare spending in Scotland.
• Background reading on Data Linking at:
• http://scotland.gov.uk/Topics/Statistics/Brows
e/Health/Datalinking
Bonus
• See how these rates compare to other areas in the
UK (England, Wales, Northern Ireland).
• See if you can find other outside datasets. Look for
online data APIs, inter-government datasets (i.e.
World Bank, United Nations)
• How does US compare? Does the US track the same
things? If and when, how do they compare? See
Department of Health and Human Services,
Administration on Aging has data sets
at:http://www.aoa.gov/AoARoot/Aging_Statistics/Profi
le/index.aspx
Scottish Healthcare
• Use semantic web technologies to convert these
datasets, link them up, and visualize them in some
fashion.
• Two Questions:
– Is there a correlation between income and
smoking, alcohol, drug use?
• http://scotland.gov.uk/Topics/Statistics/Browse/Health/TrendHealthOutcome
• http://scotland.gov.uk/Topics/Statistics/Browse/Social-Welfare
– Is there a correlation between health and
crime rates?
• http://scotland.gov.uk/Topics/Statistics/Browse/Crime-Justice
What other correlations can you find?
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