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Summary: In 3rd
International Conference on the Practical Applications of Knowledge Management (PAKeM'2000), April 12-14,
Manchester.
A Convergence of Knowledge Management and Data Mining:
Towards `Knowledge-Driven' Strategic Services
Syed Sibte Raza Abidi and Cheah Yu-N
School of Computer Sciences
Universiti Sains Malaysia
Penang, Malaysia.
Email: sraza@cs.usm.my
Abstract
Lately, there is a growing realisation amongst the healthcare community to leverage upon the vast
quantities of healthcare data and enterprise-wide knowledge to transform it into value-added,
`decision-quality' knowledge, vis-à-vis Knowledge-Driven Strategic Healthcare Services, oriented
towards healthcare management and planning. In this paper, we firstly present an integrated
Knowledge Management Info-structure--a Healthcare Enterprise Memory--with the functionality
to acquire, share and operationalise the various modalities of knowledge existent in a healthcare
enterprise. Secondly, we focus on a specific component of our Healthcare Enterprise Memory--the
Knowledge-Driven Strategic Healthcare Services Info-structure--that effectuates a confluence of
Knowledge Discovery in Databases and Knowledge Management techniques. Functionally, the
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