Everything is going to change, from a state to another one; from stable to unstable; and from cosmos to chaos, then change back again. Probably the only thing will not change is change itself. The pefect management of changes might be equivalent to a ultimate truth or the happiness that we can only pursuit but possess.

 

I believe there is a fact that we achieve an increasingly understanding to ourselves, no matter those in healthcare delivering, medical informatics or something else. Kant says, the human being is to know this world by two ways, one is the fact and another is the feeling. From praying God for raining by sacrifice to weather predication, we have interpreted numerous intuition, guess and feeling into evidence-based knowledge, then make those under control. Though the proportion of awareness to human world is very tiny, let alone the entire world even cosmos, we are on the way to something real and true - at least, we believe that.

 

The medicine and informatics science are complex. As a matter of fact, the research on human mind and body is as same as to understand the real world and natrual rules. For the latter one, (bio)medical/health informatics is an interdiscipline crossing an increasing number of domain arenas. It contains cognitive, nursing, management, economics, computer science, industrial/electronic engineering, so on and so forth.

 

When projecting the changing view on medical informatics, especially for computerization in care delivery organizations, we spotlight the integration of pertinent disciplines and domain knowledge. Such integration should be extremely complicated and full of frustration because informatics is growing very fast as well as unclear and unstable in terms of inclusion and exclusion of disciplines. Thereby, we were thinking, is it possible to construct a ontological platform for any informatics participators to share and aggregate informatics knowledege in order to find out common features/factors/rules crossing different informatics practices? 

 

The answer is No and Yes. The negtive is becasue the ultimate platform is a kind of unrealistic ultimate truth, as a panacea that can cure all difficulties. The 'yes' means we can invent an interative process to approach this ideal platform, but it might cost hundreds even thousands of years?