Rachel Richesson recently presented a webinar entitled "Mobilizing Computable Biomedical Knowledge (MCBK) 2018: Summary of Inaugural Meeting and an Invitation to a Community in Action."

This webinar explained why 150 informaticians, librarians, biomedical researchers and others met in Bethesda, MD at the NLM to promote the advancement of computable biomedical knowledge. For centuries, biomedical research and practice have been supported by knowledge represented in forms readable to humans:  words and pictures disseminated largely via books and journals.  More recently, as models, algorithms, and guidelines have gained importance in health and biomedical domains, the representation, storage, curation, and distribution of these knowledge artifacts in computable forms have become topics of growing importance and interest. It is increasingly clear that management of computable knowledge will be essential to the success of Precision Medicine, the achievement of high-functioning Learning Health Systems, and more generally to the advancement of biomedical science. Seen in this light, the "FAIR" (Findable, Accessible, Interoperable, and Reusable) principle that we apply to biomedical data is equivalently important in application to biomedical knowledge.