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Challenges in Knowledge Engineering for Health Care

   

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Challenges in KnowledgeEngineering for health care

TABLE OF CONTENTSINTRODUCTION:..........................................................................................................................1SEARCH STRATEGY....................................................................................................................1ANALYSIS AND RESULTS..........................................................................................................2DISCUSSION AND CONCLUSION:............................................................................................5REFERENCES:...............................................................................................................................8

INTRODUCTION:Information technology is been widely used in different business sectors. It is providingease and flexibility to both business and people. There has been a frequent change in workflowof technology (Feigenbaum and McCorduck 1983). The health care environment has beenhighly benefited by it. But the use of IT has been significantly implemented in health care. Dueto this it has become easy for people to know about their health status. But on the other hand IThas put certain limitations in health care support. For this knowledge management playing acrucial role in IT application, its implementation is a very challenging. This is because healthcare relies on knowledge. Therefore, research and development done in IT has decreases itseffectiveness. Despite its limitations IT can help in improving the efficiency of health care. KMfollows various methods and techniques ( Choudhry, Fletcher, and Soumerai, 2005). Itincluded people and technology, human and technical perspective, etc. Its main problemmotivating people to use KM systems. SEARCH STRATEGYThere is high use of knowledge management techniques in medical and health caresector. It is because of KM supports the structure of organisation where frameworks are applied.It follows various methods and techniques. According to reports of _(Nature. 2011) , manyorganisations are struggling in providing health care services to people. This is because ofincrease in health expenditures.Thus, in order to amend superior of welfare information andcommunication technologies are been used. By this the overall health care system can beaccelerated. It helps in design, analysis, etc. engineering plays a vital role in supportingdisruptive dynamic and realising its promise. In a research conducted by (Poste 2011), morethan 90000 people died due to failure of health care systems. Besides this, gap between medicalknowledge and application of that is increasing. Moreover, 75% of patients considered healthcare system as weak due to poor communication. According to (Ansell, 2007), estimates that30 -40 % of every dollar is spent on improving system failures, poor communication andinefficiency. ICT requires mathematical tools for controlling, designing, analysing system.Without this, most of health care providers lack the capacity to provide high quality services topeople. However, many institutions are making progress in delivering effective health careservices. It is observed that only 25% of care providers are using some form of electronic healthrecord and less than 10% doctors use operational system. 1

Technological Enablers for Disruptive Innovation in Health CareIt is because of reasons such as increase in medical knowledge and therapies and advance ICTsystems including applications. In recent times medical knowledge have increased accuracy intreatment of disease (Bali, and Dwivedi, 2007) If treatment is not available then intuitivemedicine is used. But if treatment is available then precision medicine is used. The use ofdiagnostic techniques have modified the treatment of infectious disease from intuitive toprecision. The most disruptive IT in health care is recording personal data. Efforts are been doneto manage and control this. Companies have developed PHR. Along with this, the increase ofthird party in delivering services is a major issue. This has increased the cost of health carefacilities and reduces its quality. Knowledge management in health careKM uses IT systems to manage, store, share and use information or data. It faces a lot of issuesin health care due to its complexity, impact on medical errors, etc. The challenges faced by KMin health care are due to nature of this sector (Buchan, and Hanka, 1997) There is still a toughtask to create awareness of KE in health care. Once KE is developed, change management can beimplemented. Another challenge is usability. The doctors, nurses, etc. have to work instressful atmosphere. Therefore, establishing security measures in KM is very challenging.Besides this, due to shortage of care workers it is difficult to implement KM in health sector.Until and unless effective IT tools are not developed, KM can not be implemented. Other thanthis there is lack of integration between different IT based system that is DSS, electronic healthrecord, etc. due to this communication is not very effective thus leading to poor delivery ofhealth facilities to people. At last in order to measurethe performance of health care KMmethods, tools and indicators are required (McGlynn 2007). Hence, it is not possible tomeasure intangible assets in both public and private areas. Keywords :- knowledge management, health care services, Disruptive Innovation , etc. ANALYSIS AND RESULTSThe basic aspect of health care is research needs to be effectively conducted so that dataand knowledge can flow and used in improving clinical medicine. Engineers works inpartnership with doctors and managers to improve quality (Bradley, and et..al 2011).Communication is a barrier to success. Engineering needs to be 2

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