DynaMed®, a clinical decision support tool for healthcare professionals, founder Dr. Brian S. Alper has announced the launch of Computable Publishing LLC. The company will advance the research and discovery of healthcare and scientific information by supporting standards for shared computable expressions. Dr. Alper most recently served as the Chief Medical Knowledge Officer at EBSCO Information Services (EBSCO), which he joined when EBSCO acquired his first company DynaMed® in 2005.
DynaMed has grown to provide a synthesised and curated summary of the most current evidence and guidelines for clinicians around the world. During his time with EBSCO, Dr. Alper worked to continue to advance his mission to provide the most useful information to healthcare professionals. DynaMed became the company’s flagship clinical decision support tool, created hundreds of jobs, provides information support for millions of people, and EBSCO has since developed a collection of clinical reference products.
While at EBSCO, Dr. Alper created the COVID-19 Information Portal and started the COVID-19 Knowledge Accelerator (COKA) in response to the changing needs of the healthcare and medical research community in response to the COVID-19 pandemic. The portal is an international resource for COVID-19 information, and COKA is a virtual organisation developing and advancing interoperability standards for COVID-19 knowledge.
Dr. Alper’s work on the portal and COKA quickly attracted dozens of organisations across industry, academia, government, and nonprofits in most continents to accelerate the identification, evaluation and dissemination of evidence for overcoming COVID-19.
But the current systems only support humans using computers to communicate scientific knowledge to humans. There is no method to communicate it to the computer to enable artificial intelligence, machine learning, and much greater efficiency that will reduce the effort for the many people reporting millions of scientific findings every year. That is why Dr. Alper launched Computable Publishing LLC to augment digital publishing with machine-interpretable forms. The company’s mission is to enable standard-based machine-interpretable expression of public knowledge, especially related to healthcare and scientific evidence.
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