Clinical knowledge management for healthcare

A quiet transformation has taken place in health related research in the last twenty-five years. This transformation can be traced to the coming of age of new scientific domains like bioinformatics and cybernetics which have evolved thanks to trans-disciplinary research. The success of the human genome project is perhaps the most significant pointer of this silent transformation. We believe that in the future, as a result of synergistic interaction between bioinformatics and other paradigms, healthcare systems would have an increased interest in knowledge recycling of the collaborative learning process acquired from practices. In this context, the knowledge management (KM) paradigm could assist twenty-first century clinical practitioners to acquire proficiency in understanding and interpreting clinical information so as to attain knowledge and wisdom whilst dealing with large amounts of clinical data.