Post on 18-May-2015
introduction to Health Commonsa project of Science Commons, CollabRx,
CommerceNet, and Public Library of Science
1.
the way we find drugs, cure disease, and manage our health isn’t working.
“river blindness”
18,000,000 infected
“The drug Mectazin has been used effectively, but has to be taken over 15 years and does not kill the adult worm.”
$1,000,000,000
17 years
not only is there no good cure for river blindness...
no business can afford to look.
neglected tropical diseases: 1,000,000,000 suffer worldwide
rare and orphan diseases: 7,000+ disorders
6-8% of the population
no business can afford to look.
the discovery process:
knowledge gapsprocess failures
the discovery process:
transaction costslost opportunities
knowledge gapsprocess failures
transaction costslost opportunities
where have we solved these problems before?
the network revolutionized:the way we live.
the network revolutionized:the way we find information.
the network revolutionized:the way we shop.
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the network revolutionized:the way we sign agreements.
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the network did not revolutionize:the way we do science
the problem: the network works better for queries like “help me find shoes” than “help me find me cures”
2.
it’s time to bring the same revolutions to science process that the network
brought to business process
high-throughput
robotics
...a series of technical revolutions
miniaturization
parallelization
...a series of technical revolutions
bioinformatics
data integration
...a series of technical revolutions
...a series of technical revolutions
Huntington’s
...but no process revolutions
Parkinson’s
Huntington’s
...but no process revolutions
Parkinson’s
Huntington’s
ALS
Multiple Sclerosis
Autism
...but no process revolutions
Parkinson’s
Huntington’s
ALS
Multiple Sclerosis
Autism
process revolutions: the network
Parkinson’s
Huntington’s
ALS
Multiple Sclerosis
Autism
process revolutions: the network
what moves through the network?
Parkinson’s
Huntington’s
ALS
Multiple Sclerosis
Autism
Parkinson’s
Huntington’s
ALS
Multiple Sclerosis
Autism
legal barriers kill the network
Parkinson’s
Huntington’s
ALS
Multiple Sclerosis
Autism
technical barriers kill the network
Parkinson’s
Huntington’s
ALS
Multiple Sclerosis
Autism
business barriers kill the network
Parkinson’s
Huntington’s
social barriers kill the network
Huntington’s
until it’s every scientist working alone.
Huntington’s
until it’s every scientist working alone.
it doesn’t have to be like this.
3.
the process revolution in science requires the emergence of new institutions
it’s not going to happen by accident.
it’s going to happen through good design.
the Health Commons:
we’re network engineers for science
and we come bearing process revolutions.
map of the internet, 1/2006
information and data productslegal regimes and business servicesresearch tools and software modelsbusiness processes and workflowscollaborative research platforms
network design: sharing and standards
join the network.
http://sciencecommons.org/projects/healthcommons