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Knowledge-Based Support of Medical Work in Home Care

Knowledge-Based Support of Medical Work in Home Care

Lenka Lhotska, Jaromir Dolezal, Branislav Bosansky
Copyright: © 2013 |Pages: 19
ISBN13: 9781466639904|ISBN10: 1466639903|EISBN13: 9781466639911
DOI: 10.4018/978-1-4666-3990-4.ch041
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Lhotska, Lenka, et al. "Knowledge-Based Support of Medical Work in Home Care." Handbook of Research on ICTs and Management Systems for Improving Efficiency in Healthcare and Social Care, edited by Maria Manuela Cruz-Cunha, et al., IGI Global, 2013, pp. 786-804. https://doi.org/10.4018/978-1-4666-3990-4.ch041

APA

Lhotska, L., Dolezal, J., & Bosansky, B. (2013). Knowledge-Based Support of Medical Work in Home Care. In M. Cruz-Cunha, I. Miranda, & P. Gonçalves (Eds.), Handbook of Research on ICTs and Management Systems for Improving Efficiency in Healthcare and Social Care (pp. 786-804). IGI Global. https://doi.org/10.4018/978-1-4666-3990-4.ch041

Chicago

Lhotska, Lenka, Jaromir Dolezal, and Branislav Bosansky. "Knowledge-Based Support of Medical Work in Home Care." In Handbook of Research on ICTs and Management Systems for Improving Efficiency in Healthcare and Social Care, edited by Maria Manuela Cruz-Cunha, Isabel Maria Miranda, and Patricia Gonçalves, 786-804. Hershey, PA: IGI Global, 2013. https://doi.org/10.4018/978-1-4666-3990-4.ch041

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Abstract

Healthcare applications involve complex structures of interacting processes and professionals that need to exchange information to provide the care services. In this kind of system, many different professional competencies, ethical and sensibility requirements, as well as legal frameworks coexist, and because of that, the information managed inside the system should not be freely accessed. On the contrary, it must be subject to very complex privacy restrictions. In the chapter, the authors describe a case study of a knowledge-based distributed system, the fundamental issues that must be considered in design of a distributed healthcare application. The K4CARE system is an example of an application to the medical domain of homecare assistance. Homecare involves professionals from different institutions (hospital, social workers, etc.) that must interact around any particular patient, and which used to be located in different physical places having their own and independent information systems.

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