Knowledge resources

Knowledge resources are repositories of medical knowledge developed and maintained by knowledge publishers. Knowledge resources contain knowledge assets in various representation formats such as narrative text, terminology value sets, ontologies, order sets, decision rules, and machine learning algorithms. Knowledge assets can be directly delivered to target users for decision support, or used as building blocks for clinical decision support tools. In this chapter, we describe the role of knowledge resources in clinical decision support. In particular, we describe knowledge resources in the context of decentralized knowledge distribution architectures, in which knowledge assets can be created, managed and distributed by different entities and shared among different client systems and healthcare organizations.