Things to Come: Postmodern Digital Knowledge Management and Medical Informatics

摘要: The overarching informatics grand challenge facing society is the creation of knowledge management systems that can acquire, conserve, organize, retrieve, display, and distribute what known today in a manner informs educates, facilitates discovery new knowledge, contributes to health welfare planet. At onetime private, national, university libraries world collectively constituted memory society's intellectual history. In future, these digital will constitute human its entirety. current model multiple local collections duplicated resources give way specialized sole-source servers. this environment all scholarly scientific should be public domain knowledge: managed by scientists, organized for advancement readily available all. Over next decade, field medical serve as continuous biomedical sciences come together form organization lead development postmodern medicine. These portion evolving brain 21st century.