Knowledge Management for Health Care Procedures

The intersection between knowledge management, computer science, and health care de?nes a technological area of great interest that has not been operated properly. Within this area medical procedures on preventive, diagnostic, the- peutic, or prognostic tasks in health careplay an outstanding role. The mana- ment of this type of knowledge at the point of care includes four technological scopes, at least. The ?rst one establishes the languages and structures to r- resent health care procedural knowledge and the integration of these structures with medical information systems. The second consists of the development of - gorithms and computer science technologies for the operation of this knowledge. The third scope is concerned with the development of methodologies to m- imize the bene?t of these algorithms and methodologies. The fourth concerns the integration of the previous algorithms, technologies, and methodologies in computer science systems that allow the application of this knowledge at the point of need, harnessing health care of greater quality and e?ciency.

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This book constitutes revised selected papers from the ECAI 2008 Workshop on Knowledge Management for Health Care Procedures, K4HelP 2008, held in Patras, Greece, on July 21-22, 2008.

The 10 papers presented were selected according to their relevance, quality and originality from 14 papers submitted. In addition two invited papers are included in the volume. The papers are structured in sections on technologies to manage health care procedural knowledge, methodologies to manage health care procedural knowledge, and computer systems to manage health care procedural knowledge.

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Technologies to Manage Health Care Procedural Knowledge.- Operationalizing Prostate Cancer Clinical Pathways: An Ontological Model to Computerize, Merge and Execute Institution-Specific Clinical Pathways.- An Autonomous Algorithm for Generating and Merging Clinical Algorithms.- OncoTheraper: Clinical Decision Support for Oncology Therapy Planning Based on Temporal Hierarchical Tasks Networks.- Modeling Clinical Protocols Using Semantic MediaWiki: The Case of the Oncocure Project.- Methodologies to Manage Health Care Procedural Knowledge.- A Conceptual Framework for Ontology Based Automating and Merging of Clinical Pathways of Comorbidities.- Can Physicians Structure Clinical Guidelines? Experiments with a Mark-Up-Process Methodology.- Modeling the Form and Function of Clinical Practice Guidelines: An Ontological Model to Computerize Clinical Practice Guidelines.- User-Centered Evaluation Model for Medical Digital Libraries.- Computer Systems to Manage Health Care Procedural Knowledge.- Automatic Tailoring of an Actor Profile Ontology.- A Methodological Specification of a Guideline for Diagnosis and Management of PreEclampsia.- Home Care Personalisation with Individual Intervention Plans.- Electronic Health Record as a Knowledge Management Tool in the Scope of Health.