Knowledge Manager
The Knowledge Manager is a system for collaborative development, management and publishing of a wide range of clinical knowledge resources. It enables the implementation of knowledge governance within and across the health enterprise. Resources include archetypes, templates, terminology subsets, artefact release sets, metadata relating to clinical models and related resources.
The OKM consists of a user application environment, a web service, and a repository. It enables the development lifecycle of all resources to be controlled using definable workflows, group reviews, access control, and version management.
Dependencies of resources are tracked and used to predict the effects of changes to any given resource. All semantic validation (including on archetypes and templates) is carried out by tools within the OKM.
Archetypes, templates and other resources are classifed under a formal ontology allowing users to query the entire repository based on a topic of interest. Derived forms of resources (e.g. HTML representation of archetypes and templates) are generated within the repository. All applications are web-enabled.
The OKM thus provides a comprehensive knowledge base for defining meaning, dependencies, ownership and responsibility, enabling enterprises to concentrate on the human aspects of the content development process.