Information Technology Reference
In-Depth Information
Chapter 10
Future Directions for Translational
Informatics
Peter J. Embi and Philip R. O. Payne
By the End of This Chapter, Readers Should Be Able to
Describe the relevance of translational informatics to the establishment of effec-
tive learning health systems
Discuss the roles of various stakeholders to achieving the vision of knowledge-
driven healthcare
Explain the Evidence Generating Medicine approach and its relevance to the
paradigm shift toward a virtuous evidence cycle between research and practice
10.1
Introduction
10.1.1
Revisiting the Vision of TI and Knowledge-Driven
Healthcare
As the preceding chapters make clear, the future of healthcare holds great promise
for accelerating biomedical discoveries and translating them into practice. Many
advances in biomedical informatics in recent years have begun to reap benefi ts and
address some of the fundamental challenges to translational science [
1
-
3
]. In many
ways, these advances represent early demonstrations of the potential for
Search WWH ::
Custom Search