Exchanging clinical knowledge via Internet.
The need for effective and efficient exchange of clinical knowledge is increasing. Paper based methods for managing clinical knowledge are not meeting the demand for knowledge and this has undoubtedly contributed to the widely reported failures of clinical guidelines. Internet affords both opportunities and dangers for clinical knowledge. Systems such as Wax have demonstrated the importance of intuitive structure in the management of knowledge. We report on a new initiative for the global management of clinical knowledge.
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Medical Informatics Unit, University of Cambridge, UK. ieb21.cam.ac.uk.
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D001185:Artificial Intelligence; D003142:Communication; D003195:Computer Communication Networks; D003628:Database Management Systems; D020000:Decision Support Systems, Clinical; D006801:Humans; D019146:Hypermedia; D007400:Interprofessional Relations; D008490:Medical Informatics; D010209:Paper; D017410:Practice Guidelines as Topic; D011643:Publishing; D012984:Software; D014584:User-Computer Interface