# DIKW Model

> In the context of health, the DIKW framework can be used to bridge formal, basic, and applied sciences toward a single purpose – to improve the diagnosis, care, and treatment of illness. [\[1\]](#references)

<mark style="background-color:orange;">"Data is not information, information is not knowledge, knowledge is not understanding, understanding is not wisdom." Clifford Stoll and Gary Schubert</mark>

<mark style="background-color:orange;">"Where is the wisdom we have lost in knowledge? Where is the knowledge we have lost in information?" T.S.Eliot</mark>

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