Technical Infrastructure

The charge of the Technical Infrastructure workgroup is to identify and describe the landscape of infrastructure stakeholders; the framework components necessary to move computable biomedical knowledge (CBK) from generation into practice by facilitating the testing, versioning, use, evaluation, scalability, interoperability, and dissemination of CBK; and the use cases that connect stakeholders to framework components.

The Technical Infrastructure workgroup will serve as a clearinghouse for news and events of interest to infrastructure stakeholders and the overall MCBK community.

We will engage with complementary efforts within MCBK and externally (e.g. RDA, GA4GH, Chan Zuckerberg Biohub) to identify what makes it difficult for people to implement CBK right now, and to ask, “How can we make it easier?”

Goals

• Catalog infrastructure stakeholders and their primary interests.
• Compile CBK resources and make them FAIR.
• Describe adoption cases and learn from their implementation to iteratively inform the CBK framework.

Who?

MCBK stakeholders are the generators, managers, and consumers of CBK and are active in knowledge generation, management, and consumption. Example MCBK Technical Infrastructure stakeholders include:

• Clinical researchers who use CBK
• Clinical providers
• Biomedical informatics leaders who run electronic health records (EHRs) or lead learning health systems (LHS)
• Consumers/patients
• Patient organizations (e.g. Michael J. Fox Foundation)
• Insurance companies
• Security/IT/Compliance

Contact Us

MCBKInfrastructureLeads@umich.edu