Knowledge engineering for health: a new discipline required to bridge the "ICT gap" between research and healthcare
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Knowledge engineering for health : a new discipline required to bridge the "ICT gap" between research and healthcare. / Beck, Tim; Gollapudi, Sirisha; Brunak, Søren; Graf, Norbert; Lemke, Heinz U; Dash, Debasis; Buchan, Iain; Díaz, Carlos; Sanz, Ferran; Brookes, Anthony J.
In: Human Mutation, Vol. 33, No. 5, 05.2012, p. 797-802.Research output: Contribution to journal › Journal article › Research › peer-review
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T1 - Knowledge engineering for health
T2 - a new discipline required to bridge the "ICT gap" between research and healthcare
AU - Beck, Tim
AU - Gollapudi, Sirisha
AU - Brunak, Søren
AU - Graf, Norbert
AU - Lemke, Heinz U
AU - Dash, Debasis
AU - Buchan, Iain
AU - Díaz, Carlos
AU - Sanz, Ferran
AU - Brookes, Anthony J
N1 - © 2012 Wiley Periodicals, Inc.
PY - 2012/5
Y1 - 2012/5
N2 - Despite vast amount of money and research being channeled toward biomedical research, relatively little impact has been made on routine clinical practice. At the heart of this failure is the information and communication technology "chasm" that exists between research and healthcare. A new focus on "knowledge engineering for health" is needed to facilitate knowledge transmission across the research-healthcare gap. This discipline is required to engineer the bidirectional flow of data: processing research data and knowledge to identify clinically relevant advances and delivering these into healthcare use; conversely, making outcomes from the practice of medicine suitably available for use by the research community. This system will be able to self-optimize in that outcomes for patients treated by decisions that were based on the latest research knowledge will be fed back to the research world. A series of meetings, culminating in the "I-Health 2011" workshop, have brought together interdisciplinary experts to map the challenges and requirements for such a system. Here, we describe the main conclusions from these meetings. An "I4Health" interdisciplinary network of experts now exists to promote the key aims and objectives, namely "integrating and interpreting information for individualized healthcare," by developing the "knowledge engineering for health" domain.
AB - Despite vast amount of money and research being channeled toward biomedical research, relatively little impact has been made on routine clinical practice. At the heart of this failure is the information and communication technology "chasm" that exists between research and healthcare. A new focus on "knowledge engineering for health" is needed to facilitate knowledge transmission across the research-healthcare gap. This discipline is required to engineer the bidirectional flow of data: processing research data and knowledge to identify clinically relevant advances and delivering these into healthcare use; conversely, making outcomes from the practice of medicine suitably available for use by the research community. This system will be able to self-optimize in that outcomes for patients treated by decisions that were based on the latest research knowledge will be fed back to the research world. A series of meetings, culminating in the "I-Health 2011" workshop, have brought together interdisciplinary experts to map the challenges and requirements for such a system. Here, we describe the main conclusions from these meetings. An "I4Health" interdisciplinary network of experts now exists to promote the key aims and objectives, namely "integrating and interpreting information for individualized healthcare," by developing the "knowledge engineering for health" domain.
U2 - 10.1002/humu.22066
DO - 10.1002/humu.22066
M3 - Journal article
C2 - 22392843
VL - 33
SP - 797
EP - 802
JO - Human Mutation
JF - Human Mutation
SN - 1059-7794
IS - 5
ER -
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