Knowledge Management for Health Care Procedures: From Knowledge to Global Care, AIME 2007 Workshop K4CARE 2007, Amsterdam, The Netherlands, July 7, 2007, Revised Selected Papers

The incursion of information and communication technologies (ICT) in health care entails evident benefits at the levels of security and efficiency that improve not only the quality of life of the patients, but also the quality of the work of the health care professionals and the costs of national health care systems. Leaving research approaches aside, the analysis of ICT in health care shows an evo— tion from the initial interest in representing and storing health care data (i. e. , electro...