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International Journal of Technology Management

 

Special Issue on: “Knowledge Management within the Health, Pharmaceutical and Clinical Sectors: Towards Patient-Centric Healthcare Systems”

Guest Editors:
Miltiadis Lytras, Athens University of Economics and Business, Greece
Ambjorn Naeve, Royal Institute of Technology (KTH), Sweden
Constantine Makropoulos, National Centre for Scientific Research (NCSR) “Demokritos”, Greece
Vipul Kashyap, Partners HealthCare Systems, USA

Knowledge Management has reached a significant level of maturity. Nowadays, the critical question is the exploitation of Knowledge Management techniques within specific contexts towards the provision of value-adding services, as well as the cultivation of knowledge-driven social responsibility embedded in policies and large-scale initiatives.

The health, clinical and pharmaceutical sectors are characterised by their knowledge intensiveness and justify a form of human semantic computing based on social responsibility. The requirement to organise and use heterogeneous knowledge artefacts as well as the need to establish and support social networks are critical in order to enable patient-centric healthcare systems, and they set major challenges for Knowledge Management.

Traditional technologies mixed with emerging ones, like ubiquitous/pervasive computing and Semantic Web, expand further the value borders of information systems. In fact, a new emerging area of semantics, mixed with conceptual modelling capabilities can exploit dynamic information channels in order to support more citizen/patient centric services. In fact, the advent of Semantic Web and its relevant technologies, tools and applications provide a new context for exploitation, where the “expression of meaning” relates directly to numerous open issues within the health, clinical and pharmaceutical sectors.

Subject Coverage
Submissions are invited that fall into one of the following topics:

• Applications of SW and KM technologies for health/clinical and pharmaceutical sectors
• Semantic networking for health, pharmaceutical and clinical information systems
• Knowledge management supported ubiquitous and pervasive applications for health, pharmaceutical and clinical sectors
• Knowledge portals/spaces and grids for health, pharmaceutical and clinical sectors
• Knowledge management for reference health information
• Knowledge management for evidence based medicine
• KM for clinical decision support
• Knowledge acquisition and authoring of clinical guidelines and rules
• Knowledge maintenance and versioning of clinical knowledge such as order sets and templates, clinical documentation templates, clinical rules, reminders and alerts, etc.
• Ontology-based knowledge management as applied to clinical practice
• Discovery of knowledge in clinical databases as applied to knowledge management
• Meta-information descriptions for the management of clinical information assets and their applications to learning and practical use
• Learning as a KM process in clinical and general health management
• Knowledge and learning management applications for lifelong learning in health sectors
• Mobile knowledge agents for health services

Notes for Prospective Authors

All papers are refereed through a peer review process. A guide for authors, sample copies and other relevant information for submitting papers are available on the Papers Submission section under Author Guidelines

To submit a paper, please go to Submission of Papers

This is our preferred route for submitting papers; please use it if at all possible. However, if you experience any problems submitting papers in this way, an alternative route is suggested below

Submitted papers should not have been previously published nor be currently under consideration for publication elsewhere

Important Dates

Manuscripts due by: 30 November 2005

Notification to authors: 15 February 2006

Final versions due by: 15 June 2006