Challenges in Knowledge Engineering

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Abstract
Health cares are critical areas where knowledge is paramount. This where professional
experience plays a major role when it comes to service delivery. Due to lack of adequate
professionals knowledge management has come in handy to face out some of the challenges
faced in health care. In this abstract, we shall look at the main definition of knowledge
engineering and the demand of knowledge base systems in the world today. It has also looked
deep into the challenges faced in health cares due to lack of knowledge-based systems. Other
aspects covered are major advantages of system engineering in the health care and
recommendation on the use of knowledge-based systems.
Introduction
Health is one of the critical factor that human needs to survive and for carrying out daily
activities and daily routines. Human body parts coordinate with one another to carry out different
activities. Failure of one of the body parts and organs disrupt the body functions and systems.
These are some of the condition that health care deals with to ensure humans are healthy. The
matter health depends on the knowledge which is critical in this sector. Lack of the required
knowledge in health sectors results in critical challenges the health practitioners face as they try
to find a solution to solve health care problems. In this case, I will explore the challenges in
knowledge engineering for healthcare.
Definition
Knowledge engineering is a field in artificial intelligence that emulates the behavior and
judgment of human in a given field of experts. It also involves creating expert systems to assist
in solving issues related to a specific line of specialization (Shahid, Rappon, and Berta 2019,

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p.12). The world today has -more than 7 billion people who require health care services around
the globe. These people usually have unique symptoms which require special attention; to handle
this massive number, requires enough knowledge for health care services to be successful. In the
United States only there are five thousand registered hospitals with over 12 million employees.
Each of these employees requires training before they start their new jobs. The employees
require to be trained whenever they change jobs or transfer their clinics or hospital. Health care
is a knowledge-driven sector which requires continuous training, therefore, knowledge needs to
be shared across the departments. This is why knowledge engineering is inevitable in healthcare
organizations.
Research method
Qualitative research was done in 72 countries by Word health organization in different hospitals.
The survey included face to face interview and telephone interview. The research question was
to find out the level of patients satisfaction and quality of service delivery.
Research finding
A one-third of respondent reported to be positively satisfied by health system while the majority
were fairly satisfied with the health systems. Different factors were used to measure the level of
satisfaction. Aged people were likely to be satisfied than young and educated people while
patients with bad and moderate health were badly affected by the health systems. Also, inpatient
was satisfied by health systems unlikely the outpatients.

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Conclusion
The level of patient’s satisfaction was linked to the quality of health service delivery and doctor
engagement and lack of proper health systems (Who.int, 2019).Challenges in knowledge
engineering
In the world today, change on lifestyle has greatly affected the human health and as a result,
chronic diseases have emerged which has called for new knowledge and given the researchers
more task on innovating new measures on how to tackle the menace. A chronic disease like
cancer, heart diseases, and diabetes are some of the diseases reducing the life span of people thus
increasing death rates and also treating these diseases has become difficult and expensive due to
lack of enough health expert in the world. The demand for health practitioners has increased
which has become a great challenge for the health organization to meet these demands. The
diagnosis of these sicknesses has become also a great challenge for health practitioner, it has
become difficult for a doctor to diagnose cancer and diabetes and this has led to the wrong
diagnosis and before the disease is discovered it becomes too late to treat. Doctors are usually
faced with unique symptoms and before they acquire the required information about the
symptoms they struggle to find the information to treat a given disease. Having access to
adequate knowledge-based systems in health care can drastically save lives. When the doctor is
able to access information anywhere and anytime, this can reduce the assumption and provide
better services to the patients (Wasserman2019, p.109).
Due to a few numbers of doctor and high demand makes doctor busy since they have to attend to
the entire patient in their list. These make it difficult for doctors to consult from other doctors
and are forced to depend on their own personal knowledge. This knowledge may not be credible