Knowledge Management for Health Care Procedures : ECAI 2008 Workshop, K4HelP 2008 Patras, Greece, July 21, 2008 Revised Selected Papers

The intersection between knowledge management, computer science, and health care de?nes a technological area of great interest that has not been operated properly. Within this area medical procedures on preventive, diagnostic, the- peutic, or prognostic tasks in health careplay an outstanding role. The mana- ment of this type of knowledge at the point of care includes four technological scopes, at least. The ?rst one establishes the languages and structures to r- resent health care procedural knowledge and the integration of these structures with medical information systems. The second consists of the development of - gorithms and computer science technologies for the operation of this knowledge. The third scope is concerned with the development of methodologies to m- imize the bene?t of these algorithms and methodologies. The fourth concerns the integration of the previous algorithms, technologies, and methodologies in computer science systems that allow the application of this knowledge at the point of need, harnessing health care of greater quality and e?ciency.

This book constitutes revised selected papers from the ECAI 2008 Workshop on Knowledge Management for Health Care Procedures, K4HelP 2008, held in Patras, Greece, on July 21-22, 2008.

The 10 papers presented were selected according to their relevance, quality and originality from 14 papers submitted. In addition two invited papers are included in the volume. The papers are structured in sections on technologies to manage health care procedural knowledge, methodologies to manage health care procedural knowledge, and computer systems to manage health care procedural knowledge.