E-workbench: A Case for Collaborative Decision Support in E-health

In order to realise the goals of e-health, future e-health systems will require the capability to support patientspsila information management and medical decision making in an open and dynamic ubiquitous medical environment. Such an environment will be knowledge-rich, and sensitive and responsive to the needs of patients, and will allow effective collaborative healthcare service delivery by virtual teams working across geographical boundaries. However, building intelligent systems to support collaborative decision making by virtual teams remains a huge challenge because of lack of appropriate infrastructure support in ubiquitous environments. In this paper, we present e-workbench, a prototype intelligent e-work support system, and demonstrate its potentials for supporting collaborative decision making in a ubiquitous medical environment.