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Monday, March 05, 2012

abstract: Knowledge engineering for health: A new discipline required to bridge the ‘ICT Gap’ between research and healthcare



Knowledge engineering for health: A new discipline required to bridge the ‘ICT Gap’ between research and healthcare:

Abstract

Despite vast amounts of money and research being channelled towards biomedical research, relatively little impact has been made on routine clinical practice.
At the heart of this failure is the information and communication technology (ICT) 'chasm' that exists between research and healthcare. A new domain of 'knowledge engineering for health' is needed to facilitate knowledge transmission across the research-healthcare gap. This discipline is required to engineer the bi-directional flow of data: research data and knowledge processed to identify clinically relevant advances and delivered into healthcare use; conversely, outcomes from the practice of medicine made suitably available for use by the research community. This system will be able to self-optimise, 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 as 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 individualised healthcare”, by developing the 'knowledge engineering for health' domain.

Monday, February 20, 2012

Guest post: Time to bring human genome sequencing into the clinic « Genomes Unzipped



Guest post: Time to bring human genome sequencing into the clinic

Gholson Lyon is a physician-scientist currently working at the Utah Foundation for Biomedical Research and the Center for Applied Genomics at Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia. He will be starting as an assistant professor in human genetics at Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory next month. I asked him to write this guest post to provide some personal context to his thought-provoking commentary in Nature (subscription required) on returning genetic findings to research subjects. [DM].

I have just published in Nature a commentary discussing the need to bring exome and genome sequencing into the clinical arena, so that these data are generated with the same rigorous clinical standards as for any other clinical test. This way, we can then easily return at least medically actionable results to research participants. In this day and age of consumer and patient empowerment, I can also see eventually returning all data, including the raw data, to any interested participants, as this can then promote crowd-sourcing for data analysis, with research participants controlling and promoting the relative privacy of and analysis of their own data......