8th Int'l Workshop on Process-Oriented Information Systems in Healthcare (ProHealth) and 7th Int'l Workshop on Knowledge Representation for Health Care (KR4HC)

Ulm University

Int'l Workshop on Process-Oriented Information Systems in Healthcare (ProHealth) and 7th Int'l Workshop on Knowledge Representation for Health Care (KR4HC);
Pavia, Italy, 20 June 2015, 9:00 AM

This joint workshop, which is co-organized by Manfred Reichert, brings together two different aspects of IT support for healthcare: healthcare process support, as addressed in previous ProHealth workshops, and healthcare knowledge representation as dealt with in previous KR4HC workshops. Obviously, both aspects are closely related and can be viewed as two sides of the same coin, basically. The workshop shall elaborate both the potential and the limitations of the different approaches for healthcare process & healthcare knowledge management as well as clinical decision-making. It shall further provide a forum wherein challenges, paradigms, and tools for optimized knowledge-based clinical process support can be debated. We want to bring together researchers and practitioners from these different, yet similar fields to improve the understanding of domain specific requirements, methods and theories, tools and techniques, and the gaps between IT support and healthcare processes yet to be closed. This forum also provides an opportunity to explore how the approaches from the two communities could be better integrated.