Developing a Collaborative Knowledge System for Cancer Diseases

As the number of clinical guidelines and rules for effective management of cancer therapy is rapidly increasing decision support systems are more and more required. To this direction, in this paper, we present a collaborative knowledge management system for cancer diseases leading to decision support and intelligent diagnosis. Clinicians can specify a variety of knowledge rules in a collaborative fashion. Then, those rules are applied on top of patient data collected within a personal health record. The generated knowledge is formulated as a free text and returned back to the clinicians to support them and enhance the communication with their patients.