Knowledge Media in Healthcare: Opportunities and Challenges

Knowledge Media in Healthcare: Opportunities and Challenges

Copyright: © 2002 |Pages: 296

ISBN13: 9781930708136|ISBN10: 1930708130|EISBN13: 9781591400066

DOI: 10.4018/978-1-930708-13-6

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Because the field of healthcare reflects forms of both explicit and tacit knowledge such as evidence-based knowledge, clinical guidelines and the physician's experience, knowledge media have significant potential in this area.

Knowledge Media and Healthcare: Opportunities and Challenges is an innovative new book that strives to show the positive impact that Knowledge Media and communication technology can have on human communication within the field of healthcare.

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Front Materials

Title Page

Copyright Page

Preface

Chapters

Chapter 1

The Concept of Knowledge Media: The Past and Future (pages 1-16)

Katarina Stanoevska-Slabeva

Knowledge is the internal state of humans that results from the input and processing of information during learning and performing tasks. According to Nonaka (1991), we can distinguish two kinds of knowledge: tacit and explicit...

Chapter 2

Experience with a Functional-Logic Multi-Agent Architecture for Medical Problem Solving (pages 17-37)

Giordano Lanzola, Harold Boley

The present paper reports on our experience with applying RELFUN (Boley, 1999) to problems in distributed medical care. This application arose “externally” in the original sense of the word: Massimiliano Campagnoli, working with the...

Chapter 3

Cross-Fertilizing Logic Programming and XML for Knowledge Representation (pages 38-56)

Harold Boley

The simplicity of Web-based data exchange is beneficial for nonformal, semiformal and formal documents. For formal specifications and programs the Web permits distributed development, usage and maintenance. Logic programming (LP) has...

Chapter 4

Four Different Types of Classification Models (pages 57-82)

Hans Rudolf Straub

EDP stands for electronic data processing. Data bear imminent information–but what kind of information? The question becomes particularly apparent when a great deal of data is to be processed. In this case, the data have to be...

Chapter 5

Towards Improved Representation and Communication of Pharmaceutical Expert Information (pages 83-95)

Markus Wagner

The main concern of healthcare management has ever been embodied by two conflicting goals. These are improving care quality while reducing care costs. Information technology already has proven its positive impact on both goals. While...

Chapter 6

A Semantically Advanced Querying Methodology for Medical Knowledge and Decision Support (pages 96-130)

Epaminondas Kapetanios

A large part of all activities in healthcare deals with decision making regarding which examinations and tests need to be done or, on the basis of earlier examinations, which further tests need to be ordered. Recently, guidelines for...

Chapter 7

Towards a Secure Web-Based Healthcare Application (pages 131-150)

Konstantin Knorr, Susanne Rohrig

In healthcare a lot of data are generated that in turn will have to be accessed from several departments of a hospital. The information kept within the information system of a hospital includes sensitive personal data that reveal the...

Chapter 8

Secure Internet Access to Medical Data (pages 151-165)

Ulrich Ultes-Nitsche, Stephanie Teufel

In Holbein et al. (1997) and previous papers (Holbein & Teufel, 1995; Holbein et al., 1996), the concept of a context-dependent access control has been introduced and discussed exhaustively. A prototype implementation of the concept...

Chapter 9

Poems in the Information Jungle - How Do Physicians Survive? (pages 166-175)

Allen F. Shaughnessy, David C. Slawson, Joachim E. Fischer

The days when newly graduated doctors were well equipped with the knowledge and information they would need during a lifetime are long since gone. Today’s clinicians’ knowledge becomes almost as rapidly outdated as the analysts’...

Chapter 10

The Medical Journal Club - A Tool for Knowledge Refinement and Transfer in Healthcare (pages 176-186)

Kahild S. Khan, Lucas M. Bachmann, Johann Steurer

The information base for healthcare is rapidly expanding. There are more than 20,000 biomedical journals. Approximately 17,000 new biomedical books were published in 1990, and these were projected to increase by annually up to 7%...

Chapter 11

Using On-Line Medical Knowledge to Support Evidence-Based Practice: A Case Study of a Successful Knowledge Management Project (pages 187-203)

Daniel L. Moody, Graeme G. Shanks

This paper describes a successful knowledge management project in one of Australia’s state health departments. The objective of the project was to provide medical staff with on-line access to the latest medical knowledge at the point...

Chapter 12

Structured Content and Connectivity of Medical Information - The Medical Data Web (pages 205-233)

Walter Fierz

To a large extent, medicine is an information-processing endeavor. It is all the more surprising, therefore, that computer technology has not yet developed very far in successfully supporting this activity. The areas where computer...

Chapter 13

An Extensible Approach for Modeling Ontologies in RDF(S) (pages 234-253)

Steffen Staab, Michael Erdmann, Alexander Maedche, Stefan Decker

The development of the World Wide Web is about to mature from a technical platform that allows for the transportation of information from sources to humans (albeit in many syntactic formats) to the communication of knowledge from Web...

Chapter 14

Towards a Semantic Web of Evidence-Based Medical Information (pages 254-273)

Rolf Grutter, Claus Eikemeier, Johann Steurer

It is the vision of the protagonists of the Semantic Web to achieve “a set of connected applications for data on the Web in such a way as to form a consistent logical Web of data” (Berners-Lee, 1998, p. 1). Therefore, the Semantic...

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