The
area of my research is application of knowledge management technologies
in Healthcare, so broadly it falls under the discipline of Health
Informatics. The idea is to be able to link explicit knowledge derived
from Clinical Practice Guidelines with tacit knowledge extracted from
experiential knowledge found in the form of past cases. Thus a holistic
view of knowledge is presented when the explicit knowledge is used in
tandem with tacit experiential knowledge.
This
will be achieved as follows:
Working
with one particular CPG, I will to identify with the help of a domain
expert what Tacit Knowledge will be required besides what is given in
the CPG and then acquire that from past cases stored in the case base.
On one hand we have the explicit modality of knowledge in the form of a
CPG. After processing it (applying NLP and parsing through MMTx etc) I
will obtain queries which are passed on to a CBR system. On the other
hand, the CBR system contains tacit knowledge in the form of past cases.
The cases structure is designed in such a way that it understands the
query passed to it from the CPG. The output would be a proposed solution
to the query generated by CPG, solved from the case-base, thus
establishing a link between explicit and tacit.
