Innovation Development using a Semantic Web Platform: A case-study from the National Health Service in England

The National Innovation Centre, which is part of England’s National Health Service, has developed a Semantic Web Platform to improve the speed and quality of health technology innovation development. This platform links data from multiple sources, via automated, semi-automated and manual processes. The collected data and information is rendered on the NIC’s Triple Store using the NIC’s Open Health Innovation Ontology (OHIO). Powered by Solr, OHIO-based results generate highly context specific information for end-users. End-users are able to visualise data via a range of open-source visualisation tools, and these visualisations can then be exported and re-deployed on new platforms via the NIC’s dataShuttle widget.