Title :
Challenges in Health Informatics
Author :
Shepherd, Michael
Author_Institution :
Fac. of Comput. Sci., Dalhousie Univ., Halifax, NS
Abstract :
Early grand challenge papers in health informatics identified numerous challenges, many of which either remain as open questions or have been resolved within fairly narrow domains and generalized solutions have not been developed. These open questions and those resolved but not generalized remain so because underlying research issues have not been resolved. These research issues include the synthesis of information from multiple heterogeneous sources within a user/task context and the delivery of that information in a context and form which the user can understand and appreciate. This paper presents the argument that an interdisciplinary approach based on information retrieval and knowledge management may resolve the two challenges of information synthesis and contextual retrieval
Keywords :
health care; information retrieval; knowledge management; medical information systems; contextual retrieval; health informatics; information retrieval; information synthesis; knowledge management; Artificial intelligence; Automatic control; Biomedical informatics; Computer science; Databases; Information retrieval; Knowledge management; Medical diagnostic imaging; Paper technology; Software libraries;
Conference_Titel :
System Sciences, 2007. HICSS 2007. 40th Annual Hawaii International Conference on
Conference_Location :
Waikoloa, HI
Electronic_ISBN :
1530-1605
DOI :
10.1109/HICSS.2007.123