The incursion of information and communication technologies (ICT) in health care entails evident bene?ts at the levels of security and e?ciency that improve not only the quality of life of the patients, but also the quality of the work of the health care professionals and the costs of national health care systems. Leaving research approaches aside, the analysis of ICT in health care shows an evo- tion from the initial interest in representing and storing health care data (i. e. , electronic health care records) to the current interest of having remote access to electronic health care systems, as for example HL7 initiatives or telemedicine. This sometimes imperceptible evolution can be interpreted as a new step of the progress path of health care informatics, whose next emerging milestone is the convergenceof current solutions with formal methods for health care kno- edge management. In this sense, K4CARE is a European project aiming at contributing to this progress path. It is centered on the idea that health care knowledge rep- sented in a formal waymay favor the treatment of home care patients in modern societies. The project highlights several aspects that are considered relevant to the evolution of medical informatics: health care knowledge production, health care knowledge integration, update, and adaptation, and health care intelligent systems.

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Book Title: Knowledge Management for Health Care Procedures
Book Subtitle: From Knowledge to Global Care, AIME 2007 Workshop K4CARE 2007, Amsterdam, The Netherlands, July 7, 2007, Revised Selected Papers
Editors: David Riaño
Series Title: Lecture Notes in Computer Science
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-540-78624-5
Publisher: Springer Berlin, Heidelberg
eBook Packages: Computer Science, Computer Science (R0)
Copyright Information: Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg 2008
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-540-78623-8Published: 29 February 2008
eBook ISBN: 978-3-540-78624-5Published: 23 February 2008
Series ISSN: 0302-9743
Series E-ISSN: 1611-3349
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: X, 166
Topics: Artificial Intelligence, Health Informatics, Image Processing and Computer Vision, Information Systems Applications (incl. Internet), Data Mining and Knowledge Discovery, Database Management

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Table of contents (12 papers)

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Health Care Knowledge Management

Health Care Knowledge Elicitation

Health Care Knowledge Transformation

Health Care Knowledge-Based Intelligent Systems

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