Managing the transformation towards intelligent and ethical health and social care ecosystems

Title : Managing the transformation towards intelligent and ethical health and social care ecosystems

Abstract:

Healthcare systems around the world are undergoing an organizational, methodological and technological transformation towards personalized, preventive, predictive, participative precision (5P) medicine ecosystems. These ecosystems consider individual health status, conditions, genetic and genomic dispositions in personal social, occupational, environmental, and behavioral contexts. For designing and managing the resulting highly interdisciplinary, complex, distributed and dynamic ecosystem, we must formally and consistently represent the system and its components at necessary granularity levels from the perspective of all actors including the subject of care. As those actors from different domains have different education, skills, and experiences, using different methodologies, languages and terminologies, communication and cooperation, i.e. interoperability, must advance from the data level (data sharing) to the knowledge level (knowledge sharing). To understand the business system, it must formally represent each considered use case structurally and functionally. Therefore, the design, implementation and management of intelligent and ethical transformed ecosystems must be realized, using a system-theoretical, architecture-centered, ontology-based and policy-driven approach, developed by the author over the last 30 years. The related model and framework has been meanwhile standardized as the ISO 23903 Interoperability and Integration Reference Architecture, defined as mandatory for any specification or project at ISO, CEN, IEEE, OMG, etc., addressing more than one domain. Thereby, it manages also security, privacy and trust in detail. The Keynote introduces necessary standards and methodologies for designing and managing 5P medicine ecosystems as well as practical examples.

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.