Joe Gollner

Chief Solutions Architect (Intelligent Content Technologies), Stilo International

Biography

Joe Gollner

Joe Gollner is the Chief Solutions Architect (Intelligent Content Technologies) at Stilo International (http://www.stilo.com) and the Director of Gnostyx Research (http://www.gnostyx.com), an initiative dedicated to advancing open content technologies.

At Stilo, he leads a world-class team of specialists in the design, development and delivery of state-of-the-art content processing solutions that leverage the proven OmniMark platform. At Gnostyx, he is leading efforts to design and document methodologies and tools for leveraging open content technologies within the next generation of global enterprise. Previously, Joe had been the Founder and President of XIA Systems Corporations, a firm that he had built up into a leading XML solution integrator and that he sold, in late 2004, to Stilo. Mr Gollner has worked in the content management market, with an emphasis on open standards and large-scale systems, for over 20 years and he has implemented dozens of systems across a variety of industry sectors including aerospace, defense, engineering, energy, education, automotive, government and healthcare. Counted among his clients are some of the most ambitious implementers of open content technologies including NATO, the Department of Defense, Samsung, Boeing, Schlumberger, Xerox, the Russian Academy of Science, and Nokia. For several years, he acted as the Chair for the XML World series of conferences and he has recently been elected to the Board of Directors for the Idealliance (http://www.idealliance.org).

He was educated in a wide range of subjects at Queens University (B.A. Mathematics and Literature) and the University of Oxford (Masters of Philosophy) and has also completed graduate programs in project management, business analysis and knowledge management. His blog, the Fractal Enterprise (http://www.gollner.ca) explores, among other things, a number of the fundamental concepts underlying content and information management. He recently contributed a chapter to the Information Management Best Practices publication (http://www.timaf.org).

Presentation

Intelligent Content and the Future of eHealth

E-health, Conference Day #2, Thursday May 6th, 4.00 pm - 5.00 pm

A number of case studies will be used to explore different dimensions of eHealth and the massive changes that are now underway. Through these cases, we will consider such topics as regulatory oversight, electronic health records, interdisciplinary collaboration, data driven medicine, professional knowledge sharing and leadership, and the discovery, use and sharing of health information whether it pertains to research, public health communications, or the lifecycle of pharmaceuticals and medical devices.

While there are a number of common threads combining these topics, one should be of particular importance for this community – that being the rise to prominence of intelligent content as a fundamental building block for the eHealth of tomorrow. It is noteworthy that this particular trend is not new and efforts aimed at raising the information IQ of the healthcare endeavour have been pursued for many years. One aspect of this history is the fact that the emergence and expansion of intelligent content and open content technologies within the healthcare sector is occurring in the wake of similar experiences within industries that adopted these technologies and strategies earlier. This provides an opportunity to survey these experiences to identify key trends and challenges and perhaps to catch a glimpse of what the future of eHealth might, or perhaps should, look like.

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