Collective Knowledge Pills (CKP) is a concept for the development of an integrated internal diagnosis, early detection and treatment system. It would continuously monitor the human body in order to detect potential threats to the immune system or the health in general of a patient acting accordingly to established parameters in a dynamic, Turing-complete virtual machine continuously running and updating so called "biosmart contracts".
The system would leverage the collective wisdom of biomedical science and research floating on the Net in order to transmit back, through the CKP, the treatment needed to counteract the potential or actual health threats, including incurable diseases.
All the components in the CKP eco-system would be Oracle based devices interacting with the biosmart contracts allowing for the execution of proper diagnosis or prescription treatment in the case where medication is possible. If such parameter is not met, the contracts would then be call upon the parameter that would execute a Biomedical Search Engine through the release of a "medical bot". The bot would engage on a metasearch amongst interconnected medical knowledge on the cloud as explained below.
In order for the CKP initiative to work, it would need the development of the following key components:
- Receiver Smart Pill
- Transmitter Smart Pill
- Delivery Smart Pill
- BioDigital Converter
- BioMedical Search Engine
- Dynamic BioMedical Database
An innovative way to detect cell abnormalities
Through a constant diagnosis feedback loop between the Receiver and Transmitter, the CKP will help advancement of the health/biomedical sciences by providing:
- In real time, early detection and treatment of disease, infection or cell growth distortion
- Specific and continuos targeted treatment or early detection of infections or disease
- Continuously expanded research into finding the cure for immunological diseases
- Continuously expanded research into cell abnormality related diseases
- Development of a dynamic intelligent constantly updated smart biomedical database
Following is a brief description of how the dynamics of the CKP could work.
The Receiver would be the hunter/gatherer of information. This smart pill would be absorbing randomly, micro tiny samples of chemical cell compounds throughout the human body. This would allow it to read sudden disturbances or abnormalities in the chemical composition of the body’s cell network or erratical increases in chemical cell messengers such as amino acids, nucleic acids, proteins. Also, an increase activity, for example, in white cells count which may be signaling the potential onset of an infection or also, cell disturbances indicating the potential breeding of a cancerous cell. All this information would constantly be relayed to to the Transmitter smart pill.
The Transmitter will be programmed to relay data from the Receiver, to a BioDigital Converter. The Converter, would be accessed and connected with the Transmitter pill, via an encoded Bluetooth connection. The BDC will be able to filter the information disregarding normal readings and flagging abnormal readings from the chemical data of the body. Acting as the external node it will then interconnect the CKP feedback to the Internet by uploading it to a "Biomedical Search Engine".
The Biomedical Search Engine will be programmed with an algorithm which will instruct a search robot to scan medical research, bimolecular research, vaccination databases throughout the wide space of the Net on the Cloud. In addition, it would interconnect with Life Sciences Corporations, Universities, Scientists, Researchers, etc., willing to participate and contribute directly to the project, by feeding the Biomedical Search Engine with chemical code to deal with a particular condition upon receiving a request via de BioDigital Converter.
Once the proper bimolecular algorithm to threat the disease, or potential onset of it, has been identified, the information is relayed back to the Biomedical Database. It would then automatically signal the Biomedical Search Engine that the specific compound for the ailment has been created. The Biomedical Search Engine will then channel such the compound algorithm to the particular CKP address of the patient through his or her respective BioDigital Converter.
For delivery of the treatment, there would be the Delivery Pill, which could work much the same way as the Phillips iPill currently under development. In this case, the pill would be uploaded through the BioDigital Converter, with the medical compound and programmed with specific code for marking the pathway registered by the Receiver pill when it detected the abnormalities in the body. Then, the Delivery Pill would follow such trail to release the medication to the specific place of the ailment or treat. Keep in mind that the medication was formulated through the interconnected collective wisdom of the Biomedical Database via the Biomedical Search Engine.
Finally, the Transmitter will constantly get from the Receiver, the status of the cell or any critical state changes in the biochemistry of the body that might be occurring per the treatment, updating, expanding and enhancing the Biomedical Database in a continuos feedback loop continuously improving the collective knowledge of life sciences scientists.
With the CKP Initiative, theories could be combined, hypothesis could be virtually tested, biosmart contracts will evolve, new biochemical "cloud" combinations could be discovered and the search for the cure of incurable diseases will accelerate at an exponential pace.
Knowledge in a pill? Sign me up. I'll be your test subject. Maybe I'll get super powers.
Thanks for the informative article. The blockchain really is revolutionising every part of our life including biomedical science. I would want to make sure that there would be laws in place to protect medical privacy so that insurance companies and the like not just pull up whatever information they wanted on me. That's the next step in our human evolution is to understand privacy within such a global data world.
Signed up! :)