Knowledge Management for Health Care Procedures

1. Front Matter

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2. Health Care Knowledge Management

   1. Healthcare Knowledge Management: The Art of the Possible

      • Syed Sibte Raza Abidi

      Pages 1-20

3. Health Care Knowledge Elicitation

   1. Using Lexical, Terminological and Ontological Resources for Entity Recognition Tasks in the Medical Domain

      • Maria Taboada, Maria Meizoso, Diego Martínez, José J. Des

      Pages 21-31

   2. Learning Medical Ontologies from the Web

      • David Sánchez, Antonio Moreno

      Pages 32-45

   3. Mining Hospital Data to Learn SDA* Clinical Algorithms

      • David Riaño, Joan Albert López-Vallverdú, Samson Tu

      Pages 46-61

   4. Generating Macro-Temporality in Timed Transition Diagrams

      • Aida Kamišalić, David Riaño, Tatjana Welzer

      Pages 62-74

4. Health Care Knowledge Transformation

   1. Automatic Combination of Formal Intervention Plans Using SDA* Representation Model

      • Francis Real, David Riaño

      Pages 75-86

   2. The Data Abstraction Layer as Knowledge Provider for a Medical Multi-agent System

      • Montserrat Batet, Karina Gibert, Aida Valls

      Pages 87-100

   3. Enlarging a Medical Actor Profile Ontology with New Care Units

      • Karina Gibert, Aida Valls, Joan Casals

      Pages 101-116

5. Health Care Knowledge-Based Intelligent Systems

   1. A Concept-Based Framework for Retrieving Evidence to Support Emergency Physician Decision Making at the Point of Care

      • Dympna O’Sullivan, Ken Farion, Stan Matwin, Wojtek Michalowski, Szymon Wilk

      Pages 117-126

   2. Decision Making System Based on Bayesian Network for an Agent Diagnosing Child Care Diseases

      • Vijay Kumar Mago, M. Syamala Devi, Ravinder Mehta

      Pages 127-136

   3. PIESYS: A Patient Model-Based Intelligent System for Continuing Hypertension Management

      • Constantinos Koutsojannis, Ioannis Hatzilygeroudis

      Pages 137-148

   4. An Intelligent Platform to Provide Home Care Services

      • David Isern, Antonio Moreno, Gianfranco Pedone, Laszlo Varga

      Pages 149-160

6. Back Matter

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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.

• HCI
• algorithms
• artificial intelligence
• clinical guidelines
• healthcare knowledge management
• healthcare systems
• home care
• information retrieval
• intelligence
• intelligent agents
• intelligent systems
• knowledge
• knowledge management
• multi-agent system
• ontology

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