Knowledge Management and Web Ontologies: The Clinical Diagnostic Process Scenario for Ehealth Delivery Model

There is a general recognition in the health informatics community that research on developing new methods and knowledge-mediated technologies for informed decision making according to individual patient’s profile and the individual requirements of healthcare institution is essential. KMs belong to the category of information systems used to manage organizational knowledge. That is, the knowledge management systems are IT-based systems and they are developed to enhance and bring effectiveness in organizational processes of knowledge creation, storage, transformation and application. Several knowledge management components depend on IT as core enabler