The success of new innovations and technologies are very often disruptive in nature. At the same time, they enable novel next
generation infrastructures and solutions. These solutions introduce great efficiencies in the form of efficient processes
and the ability to create, organize, share and manage knowledge effectively; and the same time provide crucial enablers for
proposing and realizing new visions. In this paper, we propose a new vision of the next generation healthcare enterprise and discuss how Translational Medicine, which aims to improve communication between the basic and clinical sciences, is a
key requirement for achieving this vision. This will lead therapeutic insights may be derived from new scientific ideas -
and vice versa. Translation research goes from bench to bedside, where theories emerging from preclinical experimentation
are tested on disease-affected human subjects, and from bedside to bench, where information obtained from preliminary human
experimentation can be used to refine our understanding of the biological principles underpinning the heterogeneity of human
disease and polymorphism(s). Informatics and semantic technologies in particular, has a big role to play in making this a
reality. We identify critical requirements, viz., data integration, clinical decision support and knowledge maintenance and
provenance; and illustrate semantics-based solutions wrt example scenarios and use cases.
Keywords Semantic Web technologies - Translational Medicine - Data Integration - Clinical Decision Support - Knowledge Maintenance and Provenance - Resource Description Framework (RDF) - Web Ontology Language (OWL) - Electronic Medical Record - Clinical Trials - Eligibility Criteria - Molecular Diagnostic Tests - Genetic Variants - Hypertrophic Cardiomyopathy - Family History - Business Object Models - Ontologies - Business Rules