Digital Worlds (applications) VEC (Enterprise Scale) • 1,300 source databases • 10+ million views (via data integration) US Healthcare (National Scale) • Scale o Health care and social assistance offices: 784,626 incl • Doctors offices: 220,131 • Dentists: 127,057 • Hospitals: 6,505 • Clinics: ~5,000 ~= SME say 100 Databases o Patients: 100-300+ million o Databases: ~32 million • Scope o Comprehensive medical events, methods, analysis, … • E.g., Alice (62) in Emergency Room with liver failure o Insurance, payments, … o New metric: healthcare quality • Examples o SHRINE (2009): 3 hospitals; uses 2,381,883 distinct concepts (ontologies) o HHS CIO (Todd Park): Open Health Data Initiative o US (PCAST, White House) vision