Knowledge Management for Health Care Procedures: From Knowledge to Global Care, AIME 2007 Workshop K4CARE 2007, Amsterdam, The Netherlands, July 7, ... 4924 (Lecture Notes in Computer Science) - Softcover

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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.

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This book constitutes the thoroughly refereed post-workshop proceedings of the first AIME 2007 workshop From Knowledge to Global Care, K4CARE 2007, held in Amsterdam, The Netherlands, in July 2007, in conjunction with the 11th International Conference on Artificial Intelligence in Medicine, AIME 2007.

The 10 revised full papers presented together with 2 invited papers were carefully selected during a second round of reviewing and improvement from 14 lectures given at the workshop and are presented in extended version in the book. The papers are organized in topical sections on health care knowledge management, health care knowledge elicitation, health care knowledge transformation, and health care intelligent systems.