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Human Factors in Dynamic E-Health Systems and Digital Libraries

Human Factors in Dynamic E-Health Systems and Digital Libraries
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Author(s): Arash Shaban-Nejad (Concordia University, Canada)and Volker Haarslev (Concordia University, Canada)
Copyright: 2010
Pages: 12
Source title: Biomedical Knowledge Management: Infrastructures and Processes for E-Health Systems
Source Author(s)/Editor(s): Wayne Pease (University of Southern Queensland, Australia), Malcolm Cooper (Ritsumeikan Asia Pacific University, Japan)and Raj Gururajan (University of Southern Queensland, Australia)
DOI: 10.4018/978-1-60566-266-4.ch013

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Abstract

E-health systems and digital libraries deal with human health, requiring fast responses and real-time decision-making. Human intervention can be seen in the whole life cycle of biomedical systems. In fact, relations between patients, nurses, lab technicians, health insurers, and physicians are crucial in such systems, and should be encouraged when necessary. However, there are some issues that affect the successful implementation of such infrastructures. Man-machine interaction problems are not purely computational and need a deep understanding of human behavior. Many integrated health knowledge management systems, have employed various knowledgebases and ontologies as their conceptual backbone to facilitate human-machine communication. Ontologies facilitate sharing knowledge between human and machine; they try to capture knowledge from a domain of interest; when the knowledge changes, the definitions will be altered to provide meaningful and valid information. In this chapter, we review and survey the potential issues related to the human factor in an integrated dynamic e-health system composed of several interrelated knowledgebases, bio-ontologies and digital libraries by looking at different theories in social science, psychology, and cognitive science. We also investigate the potential of some advanced formalisms in the semantic web context such as employing intelligent agents to assist the human user in dealing with changes.

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