intelligent patient knowledge management

Hospitals everywhere are integrating health data using electronic health record (EHR) systems, and disparate and multimedia patient data can be input by different caregivers at different locations as encapsulated patient profi les. Healthcare institutions are also using the fl exibility and speed of wireless computing to improve quality and reduce costs. We are developing a mobile application that allows doctors to effi ciently record and access complete and accurate real-time patient information. The system integrates medical imagery with textual patient profi les as well as expert interactions by healthcare personnel using knowledge management and case-based reasoning techniques. The application can assist other caregivers in searching large repositories of previous patient cases. Patients’ symptoms can be input to a portable device and the application can quickly retrieve similar profi les which can be used to support effective diagnoses and prognoses by comparing symptoms, treatments, diagnosis, test results and other patient information