Between May 2008 and Feb 2011 Canarie.ca funded the Health Services Virtual Organization, www.hsvo.ca, to develop a network enabled platform for delivering health services. The HSVO is made up of people from health education, optical network research, share reality research, and software engineering. The platform, in trials by health educators for a year, delivers health education to medical students from four teaching hospitals. In this talk we discuss lessons learned by the NRC Fredericton team who built SAVOIR-2, the middleware on which the HSVO depends. We will also discuss SAVOIR's future as a generic application framework that connects arbitrary tools and devices with user-scripted workflows.

** Bruce Spencer is a senior researcher at the National Research Council's Institute for Information Technology in Fredericton, New Brunswick, and specializes in the Semantic Web, e-Business, and service computing, working on theory, implementations and applications. He has led NRC projects with deliverables to large and small industrial clients in diverse areas: recommender systems, health services delivery, open- and closed-world reasoners, and a radiology dose registry. Formerly a full professor at UNB and now an adjunct, he is still active in graduate student supervision.