Standards and principles for designing and managing advanced, intelligent and ethical health ecosystems

Title : Standards and principles for designing and managing advanced, intelligent and ethical health ecosystems

Abstract:

Advancing from phenomenological, evidence-based, person-centered, and personalized care, health ecosystems 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, understanding the pathology of diseases and turning health and social care from reactive to proactive. Thereby, we have to enable communication and cooperation between all actors from different knowledge spaces including the subject of care, representing different disciplines, using different methodologies, perspectives, intentions, languages, etc., based on different educations and skills. Therefore, the knowledge-based, multidisciplinary, highly complex and highly dynamic 5PM ecosystem must be consistently and formally represented. The outcome is a system-theoretical, context-sensitive, architecture-centric, ontology-based, policy-driven approach for designing and managing intelligent, ethical and sustainable 5PM ecosystems, developed by the author and internationally standardized. The deployment of the approach is meanwhile defined by leading standards developing organizations such as ISO, CEN, IEEE, etc., as mandatory for all projects covering more than just one domain.

Audience Take Away:

• The methodology for formally representing and managing multi-domain ecosystems and their knowledge spaces as systems of systems will be introduced in detail.
• The role of ontologies will be explained and exemplified.
• ISO 23903 Interoperability and Integration Reference Architecture – Model and Framework will be introduced and enriched by practical examples.
• Ethical aspects including security and privacy challenges and solutions will be especially highlighted.

Biography:

Prof. Blobel studied Mathematics, Technical Cybernetics and Electronics, Theoretical Physics, Biocybernetics, Informatics, and Medicine at different universities in East Germany. He received the PhD degree in Physics, a habilitation in Medicine, and a habilitation in Medical Informatics. He was Head of the Physical Laboratory in Environmental Medicine at the Medical University Magdeburg and thereafter Head of the Medical Informatics Department and then Director of the Institute For Biometrics and Medical Informatics at the Medical Faculty of the Otto-von-Guericke University Magdeburg. In 2004, he became Founder and Head of the Health Telematics Project Group at Fraunhofer Society, Institute of Integrated Circuits (IIS), Erlangen, and thereafter Head of the German National eHealth Competence Center (eHCC) at the University of Regensburg. He was responsibly involved in the eHealth/dHealth programs and projects of more than 50 countries. He is still active in international standardization and teaching as well as supervising PhD work in many countries around the world. He is author of more than 500 scientific publications.