{"entity":{"id":"idea-data-standard-of-care-api","kind":"idea","name":"A public API serving the current standard of care for any cancer, stage and biomarker","aka":[],"tldr":"A free web service where any app or hospital system can ask 'what is the recommended treatment for this exact situation today' and get a cited, versioned answer.","summary":"Developers of patient apps, trial-matching tools and decision support each hand-encode standards of care and let them rot. A public API over the computable guidelines and evidence graph, returning current recommendations with evidence grades, citations and version identifiers for a structured query (cancer, stage, biomarkers, line), would make currency a solved problem for the ecosystem, in the way that drug-interaction databases became shared infrastructure.","asOf":"2026-09-08","links":[{"label":"Bottleneck evidence (Knowledge reaches practice too slowly): Morris, Wooding & Grant, The answer is 17 years, what is the question (JRSM 2011)","url":"https://doi.org/10.1258/jrsm.2011.110180"}],"tags":[],"related":["idea-data-computable-living-guidelines","idea-data-open-evidence-knowledge-graph"],"cancers":[],"sections":["ai-computation"],"technologies":["ai-trial-matching"],"targets":[],"drugs":[],"companies":[],"institutions":[],"pathways":[],"terms":[],"trials":[],"people":[],"bottlenecks":["b-knowledge-diffusion","b-ai-validation"],"keyPapers":["paper-morris-j-r-soc-med"],"journals":[],"dependsOn":[],"notes":[],"hypothesis":"Within three years, the majority of new oncology software products will consume the API rather than hand-encode standards, and the currency of recommendations in those products will match the guidelines within days.","rationale":"Shared infrastructure APIs (maps, payments, drug databases) are consumed universally once reliable; oncology standards of care are a natural candidate and have never been offered this way.","test":"Publish the API for two diseases; count integrations and measure the recommendation currency of consuming products versus non-consuming products after one year.","maturity":"speculative","actor":"engineering","cost":"medium","horizonYears":2},"route":"/ideas/idea-data-standard-of-care-api/","neighbours":{"idea":[{"id":"idea-data-open-evidence-knowledge-graph","kind":"idea","name":"An open knowledge graph linking trials, results, biomarkers, drugs and recommendations","route":"/ideas/idea-data-open-evidence-knowledge-graph/"},{"id":"idea-data-computable-living-guidelines","kind":"idea","name":"Living guidelines published as versioned, computable rules","route":"/ideas/idea-data-computable-living-guidelines/"}],"section":[{"id":"ai-computation","kind":"section","name":"AI & Computation","route":"/fronts/ai-computation/"}],"technology":[{"id":"ai-trial-matching","kind":"technology","name":"AI trial matching & clinical decision support","route":"/technologies/ai-trial-matching/"}],"bottleneck":[{"id":"b-ai-validation","kind":"bottleneck","name":"AI that is built but not validated or deployed","route":"/bottlenecks/b-ai-validation/"},{"id":"b-knowledge-diffusion","kind":"bottleneck","name":"Knowledge reaches practice too slowly","route":"/bottlenecks/b-knowledge-diffusion/"}],"paper":[{"id":"paper-morris-j-r-soc-med","kind":"paper","name":"The answer is 17 years, what is the question: understanding time lags in translational research","route":"/key-papers/paper-morris-j-r-soc-med/"}]}}