Abstract

In this article, we will try to address the most basic requirements for facilitating the knowledge management challenges through the elaboration of medical documentation/ record keeping with several implications on patient safety/medication safety and research quality aspects, the main purpose being the simplification of utilizing the usable outputs of ontology development efforts. This simplification is of vital importance from KM implementation in medical and healthcare domains. Because, as Ceusters et al [3] elaborate, reaching consensus on even the most basic concepts will become an intricate work in terms of the wide-scale implementation of ontology-based KM solutions in clinical practice and other healthcare related processes. EHR (Electronic Health Records) standards developed by various SDOs

SDOs: Standards Development Organizations

are not easy to implement in all circumstances. Any implementation effort, not complying with a UOF (Unified Ontological Framework), is likely to fail in terms of goal-oriented optimization and high quality safe medical practice. World- wide trend is to standardize medical documents focusing on the use of terminology systems covering care related processes.