International Journal of Computer and Information Technology (ISSN: 2279 – 0764) Volume 02– Issue 05, September 2013 www.ijcit.com 952 Towards Developing Knowledge Management System Framework for managing Chronic Diseases Based on Service Oriented Architecture Modafar Ati * College of Engineering and Computer Science, Abu Dbabi University, Abu Dhabi, UAE Email: * Modafar.ati {at} adu.ac.ae Asma’a Hussain School of Information Technology and Electrical Engineering, The University of Queensland, Queensland, Australia Wail Omar BNR Education, Canada Abstract— Chronic diseases are type of illnesses that require a continuous monitoring by physicians in order to keep the condition of the patient at the appropriate level. This requires to keep the parameters that have a higher impact on the end results to be within the allowed threshold. In this research a knowledge based system ( KBS ) is created and then integrated with the electronic health records database ( EHR ). This is used in order to create a system that is robust and able to predict the condition of any patient based on a certain number of factors that are usually defined by the health authorities. In order to create a model that able to predict a number of chronic diseases, then service oriented architecture ( SOA ) is used to accommodate these services. This present work deals with creating KBS that participate in the prediction process for diabetes patients. Keywords: E-Health, Remote monitoring, Smart framework, diabetes, Service Oriented Architecture, Electronic Health Records, Knowledge Based System I. INTRODUCTION E-Health services are bringing a lot of attentions nowadays to the research framework in order to improve the standards of living. Such services include variety of medical and health services which assist the medical sector in tracing, suggested diagnosis and follow up patients. Such services require a framework that has the ability of managing, controlling and monitoring the processes of deploying, discovering and invoking services. Therefore, Services Oriented Architecture is proposed in this research to be the framework for managing the interaction between the users at the top level and resources at the bottom layer. SOA will offer the fabric for health service integration in order to form e-health application as one of the large scale enterprise applications. Such system will improve the current healthcare industry by taking it beyond the scope of one application towards the direction of framework application. The e-health framework application is considered as a platform for implementing, deploying, discovering and invoking different types of healthcare resources from services to infrastructure, such as medical sensors, medical information, medicine information, appointment scheduling, patient history, etc…. This model is required for managing the interaction between the different components of the framework in seamless and smooth way. Furthermore, in order to monitor and control the operations of the framework, and to insure the integration between services in a way that improves the Quality of Services (QoS), availability, fidelity, maintainability and reliability, the research proposes that three extra layers are required; their main duties are to control and manage the security, manage interaction between layers and knowledge. Knowledge Based System ( KBS ) have been used in recent years to represent human knowledge, particularly as the domain problem it represent relates to heuristics. Therefore, such techniques may be considered as an ideal tool that can be used to preserve and then reuse physicians’ knowledge that is required to diagnose a specific chronic disease in a specific domain, where the domain could be chronic renal disease, Diabetes, cardiac failure,. . etc. The fact is that if patient condition could be diagnosed through representation of physicians’ knowledge, then capturing and then preserving that knowledge held be physicians become very important to repeatedly diagnosing the same or similar conditions that patient report in the future The Knowledge based system in this research will improve the healthcare industry in the region via offering an on-demand and on-the-fly integration of healthcare resources from services and infrastructure. This, in turn, will have a positive impact on people’s health, and then, as a result, on the standard of living in the region of interest. the KBS will be part of the Smart E-Health Monitoring System (SEHMS) will