Pieter Kubben, neurosurgeon at the Maastricht Medical Centre. His mission is to make knowledge available for patients. How do we define the best in medicine: evidence based medicine. The volume of scientific literature is increasing at a much higher speed than we can read. Policy makers and healthcare insurers tend to rely only on class one evidence, while class two and three also contain valuable information.

How to make the shift from medical knowledge to practical healthcare? Kubben makes a strong point for information supporting systems to process relevant medical scientific data and make it available for use in everyday practice. Shift from info in papers and so on to an interactive knowledge system that can be tailored to the individual doctor and patient.

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