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Healthcare Knowledge Management: The Art of the Possible

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Knowledge Management for Health Care Procedures (K4CARE 2007)

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Healthcare knowledge management is an active, yet not a well characterized research topic. In this chapter, we attempt to characterize healthcare knowledge management and highlight the practical aspects of healthcare knowledge management vis-à-vis knowledge-centric services that aim to improve healthcare delivery and health outcomes. We investigate healthcare knowledge management from various perspectives–such as epistemological, organizational learning, knowledge-theoretic and functional. From an epistemological perspective we elicit the different types of healthcare knowledge and the heterogeneous modalities representing it. From a functional perspective we present a suite of healthcare knowledge management services that aim to assist healthcare stakeholders. From a knowledge-theoretic perspective, we present the frontiers of healthcare knowledge management, in particular for patient management through decision support and care planning via a Semantic Web based healthcare knowledge management framework. We conclude by highlighting the role and future outlook of healthcare knowledge management.

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Abidi, S.S.R. (2008). Healthcare Knowledge Management: The Art of the Possible. In: Riaño, D. (eds) Knowledge Management for Health Care Procedures. K4CARE 2007. Lecture Notes in Computer Science(), vol 4924. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-540-78624-5_1

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