A knowledge creation info-structure to acquire and crystallize the tacit knowledge of health-care experts
Abidi, S.S.R.; Yu-N Cheah; Curran, J.
Information Technology in Biomedicine, IEEE Transactions on
Volume 9, Issue 2, June 2005 Page(s):193 - 204
Digital Object Identifier   10.1109/TITB.2005.847188
Summary:Tacit knowledge of health-care experts is an important source of experiential know-how, yet due to various operational and technical reasons, such health-care knowledge is not entirely harnessed and put into professional practice. Emerging knowledge-management (KM) solutions suggest strategies to acquire the seemingly intractable and nonarticulated tacit knowledge of health-care experts. This paper presents a KM methodology, together with its computational implementation, to 1) acquire the tacit knowledge possessed by health-care experts; 2) represent the acquired tacit health-care knowledge in a computational formalism-i.e., clinical scenarios-that allows the reuse of stored knowledge to acquire tacit knowledge; and 3) crystallize the acquired tacit knowledge so that it is validated for health-care decision-support and medical education systems.

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