Showing posts with label Healthcare IT EHR. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Healthcare IT EHR. Show all posts

20 August 2009

Quest for the Holy Grail of Health Informatics

I dedicate this particular post to my best mate, Lindsay.

If you are young enough, one morning after some decades, you may wake up to find a news headline like this:

The First Computer Scientist to Win the Novel Prize in Medicine:

--- for contributing to a grand breakthrough in medicine by designing the huge information anomaly detector dubbed as "Super-Kamiokande of Medical Science" which was essential for the discovery ---

Sounds like a cheap science fiction? Or a daydreamer's fantasy?

But there is one thing which some experts think might be able to make it happen.

Universal Semantic Interoperability - some call it Unified Field Theory of Health Informatics - which enables:

  • Whom - any humans from any backgrounds and any machines from any makes
  • What - to communicate and understand the healthcare information between each other
  • How - in full extent and depth, over ages and beyond generations to come.
Here begins the saga, the quest for this Holy Grail of Health Informatics.

Hopefully it is not a fiction, but a real-time documentary.