Living, machine-readable guidelines pushed to the point of care in every country
Cancer treatment guidance changes constantly and takes years to reach many clinics. Make guidelines live documents that software can read, updated as evidence arrives and adapted to what each country can afford.
Guidelines are published as prose, updated on annual cycles, and adapted slowly for resource-limited settings; diffusion of practice-changing evidence takes years. The proposal is a shared open format for computable guidelines (eligibility, options, evidence grades, resource tiers), a living update process triggered by trial results, and integration into electronic prescribing and decision support so that every treatment plan is checked against current, resource-appropriate guidance, with feedback on concordance by country and centre.
- Knowledge reaches practice too slowly · Knowledge diffusion is slow: it takes years for a proven result to change what most patients receive, and no one can keep up with the literature.
- Most of the world has almost no cancer care · Seven in ten cancer deaths happen in low- and middle-income countries, where radiotherapy, pathology, surgery and drugs are scarce.
- Fragmented care and guideline gaps · Patients fall between specialists, wait for referrals and often do not get the treatment guidelines say they should.
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not linked directly; found by shared links- IdeaMicro-learning pushed to community oncologists within 30 days of a practice change
Shares European Society for Medical Oncology (ESMO), American Society of Clinical Oncology (ASCO), Knowledge reaches practice too slowly.
- IdeaOpen licences for publicly funded cancer guidelines
Shares European Society for Medical Oncology (ESMO), Knowledge reaches practice too slowly, Most of the world has almost no cancer care.
- IdeaGive negative trials plenary slots at the big cancer conferences
Shares European Society for Medical Oncology (ESMO), American Society of Clinical Oncology (ASCO), Knowledge reaches practice too slowly.
- IdeaEnd the abstract-to-paper gap: require full results with any conference presentation
Shares European Society for Medical Oncology (ESMO), American Society of Clinical Oncology (ASCO), Knowledge reaches practice too slowly.
- IdeaOffline decision support for generalists treating common cancers in low-resource settings
Shares American Society of Clinical Oncology (ASCO), Knowledge reaches practice too slowly, Most of the world has almost no cancer care.
- IdeaA guideline fast track for repurposed drugs with phase 3 evidence but no manufacturer
Shares European Society for Medical Oncology (ESMO), American Society of Clinical Oncology (ASCO), Knowledge reaches practice too slowly.
- IdeaReal-time guideline-concordance feedback for every cancer centre
Shares American Society of Clinical Oncology (ASCO), Fragmented care and guideline gaps, Knowledge reaches practice too slowly.
- IdeaAn asynchronous expert second opinion for every new advanced-cancer diagnosis
Shares Fragmented care and guideline gaps, Knowledge reaches practice too slowly.