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ArticleBMJ health & care informatics2020

Does not compute: challenges and solutions in managing computable biomedical knowledge.

David Wong, Niels Peek

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Article in BMJ health & care informatics, 2020. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 5 papers.

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1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

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2 · The registry

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

5 citing papers in PubMed.

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  5. Computable knowledge is the enemy of disease.BMJ health & care informatics · 2020
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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

2 authors.

David WongCentre for Health Informatics, School of Health Sciences, The University of Manchester, Manchester, UK.
Niels PeekCentre for Health Informatics, School of Health Sciences, The University of Manchester, Manchester, UK niels.peek@manchester.ac.uk.

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Computers can potentially play a key role in resolving knowledge mobilisation bottlenecks in health and care through decision support at the point of care based on computable biomedical knowledge (CBK). But the management of CBK comes with a range of significant computer science challenges. Some of these have been suitably addressed through the development of CBK methods and tools, while others require further research and development. We review the main challenges associated with creating, reasoning with and sharing CBK, and describe current state-of-the-art solutions as well as outstanding issues. We argue that a radical approach, in which all evidence generation is suitable for computation at the outset, is ultimately needed to take full advantage of CBK.

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Biomedical ResearchKnowledge BasesMedical InformaticsHumanscomputer methodologiesmedical informatics

Identifiers

PMID32723852
PMCPMC7388884

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