Enabling knowledge-driven communication and cooperation in intelligent and ethical transformed health ecosystems

Title : Enabling knowledge-driven communication and cooperation in intelligent and ethical transformed health ecosystems

Abstract:

For meeting the financial, quality and safety challenges as well as expectations of the patients, health and social care systems around the globe currently undergo a transformation towards personalized, preventive, predictive, participative precision medicine (5PM), supported by technology. It considers individual health status, conditions, genetic and genomic dispositions in personal social, occupational, environmental and behavioral context. For enabling the necessary communication and cooperation between all ecosystem actors, we shall understand and formally and consistently represent the multidisciplinary, highly complex and dynamic 5PM ecosystem at the required level of granularity from the perspective of all actors from different domains including the subject of care, using different methodologies, knowledge, language and experiences. Thereby, they have to advance from data to knowledge focus. The solution is a system-theoretical, architecture-centered, ontology-based and policy-driven approach, developed by the author over the last 30 years and meanwhile standardized as ISO 23903 Interoperability and Integration Reference Architecture. The approach has been defined as mandatory for any specification or project at ISO, CEN, IEEE, etc., addressing more than one domain. The Keynote introduces the underlying principles and methodologies including relevant standards for designing and managing intelligent and ethical 5P medicine ecosystems as well as practical examples.

Biography:

Dr. Bernd Blobel studied Mathematics, Technical Cybernetics and Electronics, Bio-Cybernetics, Physics, Medicine and Informatics at the University of Magdeburg and other universities in the former GDR. He received his PhD in Physics with a neurophysiological study. Furthermore, he performed the Habilitation (qualification as university professor) in Medicine and Informatics. He was Head of the Institute for Biometrics and Medical Informatics at the University of Magdeburg, and thereafter Head of the Health Telematics Project Group at the Fraunhofer IIS in Erlangen. Thereafter, he acted until his retirement as Head of the German National eHealth Competence Center at the University of Regensburg as well as Head of the globally unique International Interdisciplinary PhD and PostDoc College. He was and is still leadingly involved in many countries health digitalization as well as electronic health record strategy. He published more than 600 papers, published/edited many books and supervised a big number of PhD students from all around the world. He was German Representative to many SDOs such as HL7, ISO, CEN, OMG, IEEE, ASTM, SNOMED, etc., also chairing the national mirror groups. Furthermore, he still engaged in international higher education. He is Fellow of several international academies.