**1. Introduction**

In the era of knowledge economy, knowledge has gradually become one of the most impor‐ tant assets for most enterprises. In the health‐care industry, clinical knowledge, especially physicians' knowledge, has been recognized as an important asset and a core competence

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area for hospitals. Information technology's rapid transformation and the rise of the Internet have resulted in rapid changes in data and knowledge. The establishment of knowledge por‐ tals in a health‐care management system could lower health‐care costs and foster diagnostic accuracy, thus improving the quality of patient care. Hence, within the knowledge‐intensive health‐care industry, the management of clinical knowledge is evidently the hospital's most important challenge.

In 1990, the Institute of Medicine proposed the clinical practice guideline as a systematic operational guide to help clinical researchers or patients select suitable treatment strate‐ gies when experiencing specific clinical conditions [1]. These clinical guidelines serve to improve the quality of treatment, decrease health‐care costs, and reduce medical hetero‐ geneity [2–5].

In this information and cloud‐computing age, online clinical guideline may improve the accessibility, reliability, validity, and velocity for searching best practice, thus enhancing the efficiency and effectiveness of medical practice. The implementation of an online clinical guideline system is an important way to promote medical knowledge management, develop knowledge management ability, and improve individual net benefit. Future users of the online clinical guideline system will be able to break through traditional space and time restrictions to enhance medical expertise and technology, change knowledge management behaviors, and improve health‐care quality and capability to maintain their core competences.
