Title Page -- Table of Contents -- The EPISTOL Study -- Part 1. The Scenario Report -- Knowledge Processing for Decision Support in the Health Sector -- Part 2. The Munich Papers -- Changing Paradigms for KBS Research -- Question the Assumptions -- Computer-based Decision Support: The Unfulfilled Promise -- Promoting Routine Use of Medical Knowledge Systems: Lessons from Computerised ECG Interpreters -- Development Methodologies for Knowledge Based Systems -- Why Should You Trust a Decision Support System? -- Knowledge Based Systems and their Potential Impact on Clinical Practice -- Modelling Perspectives in Medical KBS Construction -- Medical Concepts, Terminology and Natural Language -- Let's Meet the Users with Natural Language Understanding -- Compositional Models of Medical Concepts: Towards Re-usable Application-Independent Medical Terminologies -- Problems in the Integration of KBSs and Clinical Information Systems -- Some New Challenges for Artificial Intelligence in Medicine -- A Perspective on the Use of Knowledge-based Systems, Model-based Diagnosis, and Interactive Multimedia Technology in Health Care -- Data-Driven Medical Knowledge-Based Systems Based on Arden Syntax -- The Five Commandments of KBS to Be Used in Daily Clinical Practice -- Clinical Guidelines and Distributed Healthcare -- Distributed Clinical Management-Information Systems: an Enabling Technology for Future Health Care Programmes -- Knowledge Processing and Decision Support in the Health Sector -- The Challenge of Telemedicine -- KBS in a Telemedical Prospective - Needs and Challenges -- From Intermittently Connected "Smart" Devices to "Real" Telematics Supported Distributed KBS -- From Research to Industrial Products -- From Prototype to Product -Conditions for a Successful Transition