Process oriented knowledge management for radiological examinations

In the German-Brazilian cooperation project Cyclops, we are building an integrated solution in order to capture the exponentially growing medical knowledge. The system is being developed in close cooperation with private radiological hospitals in Germany and Brazil. One aim is easy knowledge exchange between the medical partners in both countries. In this paper, we describe POKMAT (Process-oriented Knowledge MAnagement Tool) and its application to medical examination guidelines. We focus on the support of examination processes and automatic report generation in a DICOM environment. In the future, the system will be extended to an organizational memory of the practice.