Global Health Knowledge Collective: A Collaborative Toolkit for Global Health

描述(由申请人提供)：在过去十年中，出现了提供者和专家的合作网络，以解决从非洲到亚洲、加勒比到南美洲的卫生问题。全球对海地地震的反应突显了这一点，在海地，基于网络的团体与国家救济组织和非政府组织一起提供了大量支持。我们认为，这预示着全球卫生领域将出现一种新的范式：从患者到提供者，健康信息的消费者可以直接访问“全球健康云”，而协作网络能够有效地开发和部署健康解决方案。强大的数字内容和低成本计算设备的融合将显著降低在资源有限的情况下提供医疗服务的障碍。此外，在网络互联的背景下采用这种技术，可以使医疗保健内容开发商和消费者的社交网络在全球健康集体中进行互动，利用和连接来自保健内容、信息系统和实践管理工具的提供者、专家和开发商的分布式网络的知识。到目前为止，还没有工具专门将这些资产集成到一个简单而高效的全球健康内容虚拟空间中。工程师和计算机科学家的重要技术专长必须与全球卫生研究人员和临床医生(如医生、护士和药剂师)的知识相结合。根据特定的临床环境定制知识，并允许轻松检索不同形式的内容，需要跨不同学科分布的专业知识。为了解决这个问题，我们将培训全球卫生领域的博士后工程师和计算机科学家，以开发工具来聚合开源临床知识，利用分布式专家网络，并为触摸式设备提供访问这些系统的简单应用程序。这一努力将在很大程度上以过程为导向，围绕促进临床护理、教育和研究一体化的可持续性和效率模式进行组织。

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): In the last decade collaborative networks of providers and experts have arisen to address health issues from Africa to Asia, the Caribbean to South America. This is highlighted by the global response to the earthquake in Haiti, where web-based groups provided significant support alongside national relief organizations and NGOs. We believe this presages a new paradigm in global health: one in which consumers of health information, from patients to providers, have direct access to the "Global-Health Cloud" and collaborative networks enable efficient development and deployment of health solutions. The convergence of robust digital content and low-cost computing devices will significantly lower the barrier to medical services in resource limited settings. Moreover, the adoption of such technologies in the context of web-enabled interconnectivity can allow a social network of healthcare content developers and consumers to interact in a Global Health Collective, leveraging and connecting knowledge from a distributed network of providers, experts, and developers of health content, information systems and practice management tools. To date, no tool specifically integrates these assets into a simple and efficient virtual space for global health content. Significant technical expertise from engineers and computer scientists has to be combined with knowledge from global health researchers and clinicians, such as physicians, nurses, and pharmacists. Tailoring the knowledge to a particular clinical setting and allowing different modalities of content to be easily retrievable requires expertise that is distributed across different disciplines. To address this, we will train postdoctoral engineers and computer scientists in global health to develop instruments to aggregate open source clinical knowledge, leverage distributed expert networks, and produce a simple application for touch-enabled devices to access these systems. This endeavor will be heavily process oriented, organized around models of sustainability and efficiency that promote integration of clinical care, education and research.