Computable knowledge: An imperative for Learning Health Systems

An Interactive Knowledge-based Learning Environment for Transferring Health Knowledge

This paper describes a narrative based interactive intelligent learning environment which aims to elucidate reasoning using interactive scenarios that may be used in training novices ICU nurses in the application of their knowledge and decision making. Its design is based on an approach to generating narrative from knowledge that has been modelled in specific decision/reasoning domains. The app...

Health surveillance: an operational imperative?

Many recent operations have highlighted the problem of hazard exposure in troops. This is a difficult area since it depends upon both post-deployment and possibly mid-deployment health surveillance and crosses the traditional limits of occupation and public health medicine. Health surveillance is itself a term which straddles occupational and public health medicine. For the military population ...

Healthcare IT Testing: A New Business Imperative for Health Systems

E-knowledge in Health Care: A Strategic Imperative

e 1 Corresponding author Abstract The Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA, Public Law104191), signed by President Clinton on 21 August 1996, is definitely providing a strong push for the US health care sector to embrace various ecommerce initiatives. The Act aims to improve productivity of the American Health Care System by encouraging the development of information syste...

Personalising your health: an EU imperative

In the fast-moving world of personalised medicine there are many issues and barriers-not least when it comes to getting novel drugs and treatments swiftly to where they are really needed. Slow bench-to-bedside rates do not help the 500 million potential patients across the EU's current 28 Member States, and the timings are affected by several elements during the development and licensing phases...