An Intelligent Agent-based Knowledge Broker for Enterprise-wide Healthcare Knowledge Procurement

  • Authors:
  • Zafar Iqbal Hashmi;Syed Sibte Raza Abidi;Yu-N. Cheah

  • Affiliations:
  • -;-;-

  • Venue:
  • CBMS '02 Proceedings of the 15th IEEE Symposium on Computer-Based Medical Systems (CBMS'02)
  • Year:
  • 2002

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Abstract

Within the confines of a Healthcare Enterprise Memory (HEM), most traditional medicalsystems do not sufficiently provide the necessary assistance to healthcare practitioners in thehandling of critical situations. Furthermore, localized knowledge repositories are often lackingthe required knowledge for problem solving. Therefore, in this paper, we present an agent-based knowledge broker called the Intelligent Healthcare Knowledge Assistant (IHKA) fordynamic knowledge gathering, filtering, adaptation and acquisition from a HEM comprisingan amalgamation of (i) databases storing empirical knowledge, (ii) case-bases storingexperiential knowledge, (iii) scenario-bases storing tacit knowledge and (iv) document-basesstoring explicit knowledge. The featured work leverages intelligent agent techniques forautonomous HEM-wide navigation, approximate content matching, inter-and intra-repositories content correlation, and knowledge adaptation and procurement to meet theuser's healthcare knowledge needs.