Abstract:
One way to fulfill point-of-care knowledge needs is to present caregivers with a visual
representation of the available “answers”. Using such a representation, caregivers
can recognize what they want, rather than have to recall what they need, and then
navigate to an appropriate answer. Given selected pieces of information from a computer-based
patient record, an interface can anticipate certain knowledge needs by initializing
caregiver navigation in a semantic neighborhood of answers likely to be relevant to
the patient at hand. These notions draw heavily on two collaborative projects – the
U.S. National Library of Medicine Unified Medical Language System® and the U.S. National Cancer Institute Knowledge Server. Both of these projects support
navigation because they make the structure of medical knowledge explicit in a way
that can be exploited by human interfaces.
Keywords:
Navigation - Knowledge - Semantic Visualization - Point of Care - Computer-based Patient
Record