22 December 2011: ITFoM - The IT Future of Medicine
Published in the 'Procedia Computer Science' journal on the Proceedings of the 2nd European Future Technologies Conference and Exhibition 2011 (FET 11).
Abstract from the article:
Molecular medicine is undergoing a revolution, creating a data fog that may obscure understanding. The functioning human is analogous to a biological factory controlled by an incredibly complex Information and Communication (IC) network. It is proposed that 7 billion computational replicas be made of those 7 billion human IC networks to enable interrogation and manipulation, for understanding and personalized healthcare. This requires a revolutionary ICT that follows the organization of the biological information and communication flows, with implications for hardware, software and connectivity.
About the Journal (from the homepage of Procedia Computer Science):
Launched in 2009, Procedia Computer Science is an electronic product focusing entirely on publishing high quality conference proceedings. Procedia Computer Science enables fast dissemination so conference delegates can publish their papers in a dedicated online issue on ScienceDirect, which is then made freely available worldwide.
The full article is available here