This bookis the resultof merging two workshopsseries namely oneon comp- erized guidelines and
protocols and the other one on knowledge management for healthcareprocedures.
Themergeresultedinthe KR4HCworkshop:Knowledge Representationfor HealthCare:Data Processes
andGuidelines. This workshop was held in conjunction with the 12th Conference on Arti?cial
Intelligence in Medicine (AIME 2009) in Verona Italy. The book included in addition to the
full-length workshop papers invited peer-reviewed advanced papers on lessons learned in these
?elds. The KR4HC workshop continued a line of successful guideline workshops held in 2000 2004
2006 2007 and 2008. Following the success of the ?rst - ropean Workshop on Computerized
Guidelines and Protocols held in Leipzig Germany in 2000 the Symposium on Computerized
Guidelines and Protocols (CGP 2004) was organized in Prague Czech Republic in 2004 to identify
use cases for guideline-based applications in health care computerized methods for
supportingtheguidelinedevelopmentprocess andpressingissuesandpromising
approachesfordevelopingusableandmaintainablevehiclesforguidelinedelivery. In 2006 an ECAI 2006
workshop at Riva del Garda Italy entitled AI Te- niques in Health
Care:Evidence-BasedGuidelinesand Protocols wasorganized to bring together researchers from
di?erent branches of arti?cial intelligence to examine cutting-edge approaches to guideline
modeling and development and to consider how di?erent communities can cooperate to address the
challenges of computer-based guideline development.
