We report on a prospective, prolective observational study, supplying information on how
physicians and other health care professionals retrieve medical knowledge on-line within …

The aim of this chapter is to explain the role of knowledge management and how it can be
successfully applied in the area of healthcare in order to improve health services and to …

It is widely recognized that medicine has reached a crisis point. Doctors can no longer
memorize or effectively apply the vast amounts of scientific knowledge that are relevant to …

A rich knowledge base is the primary source of power of any medical decision support
systems even if the implementations are quite different. Since it is evident that no single …

Knowledge-based systems (KBSs) in medicine have received much attention over the past
two decades, mainly because of the potential benefits that can be gained from using them …

Healthcare organizations are big source of knowledge creation. Acquiring knowledge,
storing and transferring it to others in affective way has its own importance for healthcare …

Today, the demand for medical decision support to improve the quality of patient care and to
reduce costs in health services is generally recognized. Nevertheless, decision support is …

The European Research Area requires either technological development or information
literacy of health professionals. This information literacy shall be understood much deeper …

Data, information, and knowledge in medicine is varied, changing, interrelated, and for
diverse purposes. Medical and Clinical care depends on the correct and efficient combined …

Conventional computer-assisted medical decision-making systems have had limited impact
on routine clinical practice. This has stimulated an alternative approach to the utilization of …