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Transforming Health Care With Knowledge

"The enemy of disease is knowledge!"
~ Sir Muir Gray, Chief Knowledge Officer, NHS.

In a short video interview, Sir Muir Gray likens knowledge to water by stating that just as 'clean, clear water' is crucial to good health, so today's 'water' is 'clean, clear knowledge'. He maintains that this 'knowledge' is even more important than any drug or technological healthcare innovation.


As a spokesperson for the Map of Medicine, the tool that is tranforming healthcare in the UK and beyond, Sir Gray explains that we are currently in the '3rd health care revolution'. The three key ingredients in this revolution he states are:

1) knowledge
2) the internet
3) patients

This Web 3.0 meets the '6S model' of evidence-based medical practice; is transcending the old 'care plan/ medical record' to facilitate a new, more satisfactory level of interdisciplinary cooperation and patient-physician collaboration for improved health outcomes!
Click on the post title to access the video clip of this interview.

Labels: 6S model, evidence-based practice, interdisciplinary healthcare, knowledge transfer, patient education, patient-physician communication, Web 3.0

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