Knowledge Management in Ubiquitous Healthcare

Ubiquitous healthcare (UbiCare) refers to an emerging paradigm that fundamentally changes the way one accesses healthcare services. UbiCare presents itself as both an opportunity and a challenge to the traditional semantics-enriched knowledge management (KM). It provides a good testbed upon which traditional KM methodology can be validated and verified. It is a challenge in the sense that many assumptions made with respect to the traditional KM models are no longer applicable. In this paper, we review our recent work in the breast cancer domain and reflect on what can and should have been achieved when semantic web technologies are applied to healthcare. We then speculate on the possible impact of the new healthcare paradigm on KM.