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Clinical Knowledge Repository

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Encyclopedia of Database Systems

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Clinical content database; Clinical content registry; Clinical content repository; Clinical knowledge base; Clinical knowledge directory; Clinical knowledge management repository

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A clinical knowledge repository (CKR) is a multipurpose storehouse for clinical knowledge assets. “Clinical knowledge asset” is a generic term that describes any type of human or machine-readable electronic content used for computerized clinical decision support. A CKR is normally implemented as an enterprise resource that centralizes a large quantity and wide variety of clinical knowledge assets. A CKR provides integrated support to all asset lifecycle phases such as authoring, review, activation, revision, and eventual inactivation. A CKR routinely provides services to search, retrieve, transform, merge, upload, and download clinical knowledge assets. From a content curation perspective, a CKR has to ensure proper asset provenance, integrity, and versioning, along with effective access...

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  1. Partners eCare, Partners HealthCare System, Wellesley, MA, USA

    Roberto A. Rocha

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  1. Roberto A. Rocha
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  1. Georgia Institute of Technology College of Computing, Atlanta, GA, USA

    Ling Liu

  2. University of Waterloo School of Computer Science, Waterloo, ON, Canada

    M. Tamer Özsu

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  1. Clinical Programs, CIGNA Healthcare, Bloomfield, CT, USA

    Vipul Kashyap

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Rocha, R.A. (2018). Clinical Knowledge Repository. In: Liu, L., Özsu, M.T. (eds) Encyclopedia of Database Systems. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4614-8265-9_57

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