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PatMan


Semantic Web and Knowledge Services  
PATient Workflow MANagement System

The PATMAN project aims at promoting an effective and efficient health-care delivery by providing integrated support for tackling medical and organizational issues during patient management. In the context of this project we are developing knowledge management technology to support the formalization and access to documents describing medical guidelines; thus providing a means of teaching healthcare professionals.

Participant(s): Enrico Motta and John Domingue

Project Champion: Enrico Motta
Further Information Email | Enrico Motta


URL: http://kmi.open.ac.uk/projects/patman
 
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Knowledge Management is...


Knowledge Management
Creating learning organisations hinges on managing knowledge at many levels. Knowledge can be provided by individuals or it can be created as a collective effort of a group working together towards a common goal, it can be situated as "war stories" or it can be generalised as guidelines, it can be described informally as comments in a natural language, pictures and technical drawings or it can be formalised as mathematical formulae and rules, it can be expressed explicitly or it can be tacit, embedded in the work product. The recipient of knowledge - the learner - can be an individual or a work group, professionals, university students, schoolchildren or informal communities of interest.
Our aim is to capture, analyse and organise knowledge, regardless of its origin and form and make it available to the learner when needed presented with the necessary context and in a form supporting the learning processes.