Whole systems approach

Global Advances Toward a Whole Systems Approach

Editorial When a patient with symptoms presents to a physician or other healthcare professional, the skillful practitioner notices not only where the patient is compromised but also how the patient is healthy. From ancient times through the present, this way of seeing individual patients as whole beings, as having both strengths and challenges, has been the hallmark of professional practice. An...

Whole-Body Counting Systems

Towards whole-body systems physiology

The liver executes a multitude of functions in human physiology such as detoxification or hormone synthesis. Consequently, hepatic dysfunction, be it inborn or acquired, can lead to diverse pathological manifestations as for instance argininemia or hypercholesterolemia. To analyze liver function at the cellular scale and to investigate underlying genotype–phenotype relationships, a growing numb...

ENTRA: Whole-systems energy transparency

Promoting energy efficiency to a first class system design goal is an important research challenge. Although more energy-efficient hardware can be designed, it is software that controls the hardware; for a given system the potential for energy savings is likely to be much greater at the higher levels of abstraction in the system stack. Thus the greatest savings are expected from energy-aware so...

Whole Medical Systems: An Overview

“Whole Medical Systems: An Overview” is one of five background papers on the major areas of complementary and alternative medicine (CAM). The series was prepared as part of the National Center for Complementary and Alternative Medicine’s (NCCAM’s) strategic planning efforts for the years 2005 to 2009. These brief reports should not be viewed as comprehensive or definitive reviews. Rather, they ...