Toward a technology for organizational memories

Abecker, Andreas; Bernardi, Ansgar; Hinkelmann, Knut; Kühn, Otto; Sintek, Michael

doi:10.1109/5254.683209

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“…The description of the functional and architectural specification of such a KM-oriented info-structure is the theme of the work reported here. In this paper we will present: A reference KM info-structure-a Healthcare Enterprise Memory (HEM)-that purports the functionality to acquire, share and operationalise the various modalities of knowledge existent in a healthcare enterprise [2,10].…”

Section: Introduction: Knowledge Management In Healthcarementioning

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Knowledge management in healthcare: towards ‘knowledge-driven’ decision-support services

Abidi

2001

International Journal of Medical Informatics

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In this paper, we highlight the involvement of Knowledge Management in a healthcare enterprise. We argue that the 'knowledge quotient' of a healthcare enterprise can be enhanced by procuring diverse facets of knowledge from the seemingly placid healthcare data repositories, and subsequently operationalising the procured knowledge to derive a suite of Strategic Healthcare Decision-Support Services that can impact strategic decision-making, planning and management of the healthcare enterprise. In this paper, we firstly present a reference Knowledge Management environment-a Healthcare Enterprise Memory-with the functionality to acquire, share and operationalise the various modalities of healthcare knowledge. Next, we present the functional and architectural specification of a Strategic Healthcare Decision-Support Services Info-structure, which effectuates a synergy between knowledge procurement (vis-à-vis Data Mining) and knowledge operationalisation (vis-à-vis Knowledge Management) techniques to generate a suite of strategic knowledge-driven decision-support services. In conclusion, we argue that the proposed Healthcare Enterprise Memory is an attempt to rethink the possible sources of leverage to improve healthcare delivery, hereby providing a valuable strategic planning and management resource to healthcare policy makers.

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Section: Introduction: Knowledge Management In Healthcarementioning

confidence: 99%

Knowledge management in healthcare: towards ‘knowledge-driven’ decision-support services

Abidi

2001

International Journal of Medical Informatics

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“…[2]). These tools can automatically extract key terms from text documents which cover content areas of the domain.…”

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Knowledge Mediation: A Procedure for the Cooperative Construction of Domain Ontologies

Aschoff

Schmalhofer

Elst

2004

Engineering Knowledge in the Age of the Semantic Web

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Abstract. In order to enable knowledge sharing and reuse among software entities, artificial intelligence researchers have proposed to develop 'ontologies' as the explicit formal specifications of conceptualizations. These ontologies were normally designed by knowledge engineers who laid down the basic categories and relations for a certain domain. However, in any practical setting there will be conflicting interests which pertain to different conceptualizations of which a knowledge engineer will usually not be aware of. For this reason, we propose a three-phased ontology construction procedure in which the knowledge engineer mediates between the differing conceptions experts or users may hold about a knowledge domain. This procedure is described in detail in this paper and subsequently empirically demonstrated and evaluated in a study with 28 participants. The evaluation reveals convincing advantages of the proposed knowledge mediation procedure. We conclude that an ontology construction process is not only an engineering task but more importantly also a social process where the relevant parties for example of a work place need to be involved before successful and durable solutions can be found.

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“…As different organizations are structured in different ways, varying in the quantity of structural levels, the relationships among them and the names adopted, an Enterprise Ontology is fundamental to define a common vocabulary to guide the description of any organization for which an EOSDE can be generated or any of their client organizations. The use of an Enterprise Ontology to support Knowledge Management is mentioned in [10].…”

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The use of an enterprise ontology to support knowledge management in software development environments

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Toward a technology for organizational memories

Cited by 220 publications

References 9 publications

Knowledge management in healthcare: towards ‘knowledge-driven’ decision-support services

Knowledge management in healthcare: towards ‘knowledge-driven’ decision-support services

Knowledge Mediation: A Procedure for the Cooperative Construction of Domain Ontologies

The use of an enterprise ontology to support knowledge management in software development environments

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