Health-Related Professions - General & Miscellaneous, Medicine & Computer Technology, Bioinformatics, Hospitals & Health Administration
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Overview
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.
Editorials
The term "knowledge media," was defined by its coiner "as an information network with semi-automated services for the generation, distribution, and consumption of knowledge." These 14 contributions, presented by Grütter (U. of St. Gallen, Switzerland), attempt to answer the question of how recent trends towards knowledge media will change the way things are done in healthcare. Articles cover a history of the development of knowledge media, the use of classification models for the coding of diagnoses or indexing of medical subjects, a semantically advanced query language for medical knowledge and decision support, the lack of sophisticated security measures in computerized healthcare applications, the use of context-dependent access control to support distributed clinical trials, the acquisition and appraisal of current relevant clinical evidence, and the coding of medical information in electronic form. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)
Book Details
Published
July 31, 2001
Publisher
IGI Publishing
Pages
296
Format
Hardcover
ISBN
9781930708136