Towards a knowledge based health service

Towards a Knowledge-Based Approach to Semantic Service Composition

The successful application of Grid and Web Service technologies to real-world problems, such as e-Science [1], requires not only the development of a common vocabulary and meta-data framework as the basis for inter-agent communication and service integration but also the access and use of a rich repository of domain-specific knowledge for problem solving. Both requirements are met by the respec...

Towards organizing health knowledge on community-based health services

Online community-based health services accumulate a huge amount of unstructured health question answering (QA) records at a continuously increasing pace. The ability to organize these health QA records has been found to be effective for data access. The existing approaches for organizing information are often not applicable to health domain due to its domain nature as characterized by complex r...

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Towards a National Health Knowledge Infrastructure (NHKI): The role of Semantics-based Knowledge Management

The healthcare system in the US is facing crucial challenges in delivering effective, efficient and high quality healthcare. These challenges are in part due to the volume of knowledge and information and their fragmentation across paper and heterogeneous clinical information systems. For instance, biomedical literature doubles every 19 years. AIDS literature in particular doubles every 22 mont...

Towards Knowledge Based Society

Knowledge Propagation is the challenge. Better society requires best knowledge management practices and use of latest tools and technologies. KM is dealing with the problem of different languages in big countries. Also Knowledge is present in different forms. It may be knowledge encoded in laws, decrees, standards, policies, rules, regulations and orders. All these forms of knowledge must be co...