Editorial: Precision dentistry and ehealth in oral healthcare

Abstract

The increasing collection of health data coupled with continuous improvement in information 14 processing and analysis have moved us closer to the promises made by precision medicine. However, 15 many barriers still exist when it comes to data fitness that is essential when considering the use of 16 data collected during the regular care process for research. Completeness, accuracy and consistency 17 are three of the main problems researchers are faced with when using data for research (1) As we are aggregating electronic health records data, wide-scale omics information, patient generated 64 health data, and data from environmental sensors, we need to embrace a digital infrastructure that 65 uses AI to make sense of this data to improve the health of our communities. Through data, we will shift healthcare from its focus on diagnosis and treatment to prevention and early intervention -a 67 move from crisis management to health management (7). 68 EHRs represent a critical foundation for supporting a dental Learning Health System (LHS) ( 8): 69Advances in information technology are changing the way health data are collected, especially data 70 obtained at the point of care. The adoption of EHRs in medicine has shown that it is possible to 71 collect medical records from multiple institutions, thus achieving data sets that include millions of 72 individual patients. 73The contributing authors' work makes us optimistic about a future when all health professionals will 74 use Health IT not as an encounter-based reporting tool to support documentation and billing, but 75 rather as a tool to fulfil its original intention: supporting the best possible care for all of our patients -76 all meaning here: 77 -Across all socio-economic groups; 78 -All meaning all encounter types acute, chronic and monitoring wellbeing at home; 79 -All meaning in hospitals and in ambulatory care settings; and 80 -All meaning across all geographical areas of all countries. 81 So, the question is: How do we move such a vision from impossible to imperative to inevitable? The 82 papers in this issue give us a glimpse of what is to come. 83

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