Towards a systems approach for chronic diseases, based on health state modeling.

ABSTRACT: Rising pressure from chronic diseases means that we need to learn how to deal with challenges at a different level, including the use of systems approaches that better connect across fragments, such as disciplines, stakeholders, institutions, and technologies. By learning from progress in leading areas of health innovation (including oncology and AIDS), as well as complementary indications (Alzheimer's disease), I try to extract the most enabling innovation paradigms, and discuss their extension to additional areas of application within a systems approach. To facilitate such work, a Precision, P4 or Systems Medicine platform is proposed, which is centered on the representation of health states that enable the definition of time in the vision to provide the right int

SUBMITTER: Rebhan M 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC5419256 | biostudies-literature | 2017

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature