Global Health Knowledge Collective: A Collaborative Toolkit for Global Health

描述（由申请人提供）：在过去十年中，提供者和专家的合作网络已经兴起，以解决从非洲到亚洲、加勒比地区到南美洲的健康问题。全球对海地地震的反应凸显了这一点，网络团体与国家救援组织和非政府组织一起提供了重要支持。我们相信，这预示着全球健康的一种新范式：在这种范式中，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”，协作网络可以实现健康解决方案的高效开发和部署。强大的数字内容和低成本计算设备的融合将显着降低资源有限环境中医疗服务的障碍。此外，在网络互连的背景下采用此类技术可以允许医疗保健内容开发人员和消费者的社交网络在全球健康集体中进行交互，利用和连接来自健康内容、信息系统和实践管理工具的提供者、专家和开发人员的分布式网络的知识。迄今为止，还没有工具专门将这些资产集成到简单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业知识必须与全球健康研究人员和临床医生（例如医生、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分布在不同学科的专业知识。为了解决这个问题，我们将培训全球健康领域的博士后工程师和计算机科学家，开发工具来聚合开源临床知识，利用分布式专家网络，并为支持触摸的设备访问这些系统生成一个简单的应用程序。这项工作将以流程为导向，围绕可持续性和效率模型进行组织，以促进临床护理、教育和研究的整合。

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.