ABSTRACT Situated and context-sensitive information logistics surface as decisive requirement for... more ABSTRACT Situated and context-sensitive information logistics surface as decisive requirement for supporting critical care units, because information relevant for patient treatment stems from heterogeneous as well as distributed data sources. Immediate treatment starts with an incomplete and almost empty array of information which fills continuously over time by examinations conducted by organizationally as well as geographically distributed departments. Agent technology and multiagent systems appear as a promising enabling technology to improve information logistics in intensive care units. However, an overall development methodology is required that enables an engineering process from the capture of know-how about clinical processes towards a model-based generation of multiagent systems. This contribution reports on an agile development methodology used for the design, implementation and testing of applications for agent-based information logistics.
Studies in Health Technology and Informatics, 2021
Since 2017, the German Society for Medical Informatics, Biometry and Epidemiology e.V. (GMDS) off... more Since 2017, the German Society for Medical Informatics, Biometry and Epidemiology e.V. (GMDS) offers the submission of full papers to the annual meetings, optional in Studies in Health Technologies and Informatics (Stud HIT) or in GMS Medical Informatics, Biometrics, and Epidemiology (MIBE). GMDS’ aim is to increase the attractiveness of the conference and paper submission process in particular for young scientists and to increase the visibility of the conference. A standardized peer review process was established. Since 2017, a 25–35% of the contributions have been submitted as full papers. A total of 177 papers were published in Stud HTI. With an unofficial journal impact factor of 1.088 (2019) and 0.540 (2020), the papers were cited with a frequency similarly to national medical journals or full paper contributions of International medical informatics conferences.
ABSTRACT Situated and context-sensitive information logistics surface as decisive requirement for... more ABSTRACT Situated and context-sensitive information logistics surface as decisive requirement for supporting critical care units, because information relevant for patient treatment stems from heterogeneous as well as distributed data sources. Immediate treatment starts with an incomplete and almost empty array of information which fills continuously over time by examinations conducted by organizationally as well as geographically distributed departments. Agent technology and multiagent systems appear as a promising enabling technology to improve information logistics in intensive care units. However, an overall development methodology is required that enables an engineering process from the capture of know-how about clinical processes towards a model-based generation of multiagent systems. This contribution reports on an agile development methodology used for the design, implementation and testing of applications for agent-based information logistics.
During patient care physicians have to make important decisions, often based upon uncertain and i... more During patient care physicians have to make important decisions, often based upon uncertain and incomplete data, about diagnostic and therapeutic actions. Various kinds of decision support exist in form of paper-based recommendations and guidelines, yet only a few proactive systems support the physician in select-ing and executing these guidelines. This thesis contributes to the research on computerized clinical guidelines by as-sessing, combining and extending existing methods and technologies used for automating clinical guidelines: A meta-model is developed to capture process knowledge which exists e.g. in form of guidelines. The model is based upon the main common elements of computerized guideline languages and is for the first time ex-tended by a strategic level by means of specific goal modelling. An execution engine is implemented which is based on flexible workflow techniques and connected by an HL7 interface to communicate with a pa-tient data management system. User inter...
ABSTRACT Situated and context-sensitive information logistics surface as decisive requirement for... more ABSTRACT Situated and context-sensitive information logistics surface as decisive requirement for supporting critical care units, because information relevant for patient treatment stems from heterogeneous as well as distributed data sources. Immediate treatment starts with an incomplete and almost empty array of information which fills continuously over time by examinations conducted by organizationally as well as geographically distributed departments. Agent technology and multiagent systems appear as a promising enabling technology to improve information logistics in intensive care units. However, an overall development methodology is required that enables an engineering process from the capture of know-how about clinical processes towards a model-based generation of multiagent systems. This contribution reports on an agile development methodology used for the design, implementation and testing of applications for agent-based information logistics.
Studies in Health Technology and Informatics, 2021
Since 2017, the German Society for Medical Informatics, Biometry and Epidemiology e.V. (GMDS) off... more Since 2017, the German Society for Medical Informatics, Biometry and Epidemiology e.V. (GMDS) offers the submission of full papers to the annual meetings, optional in Studies in Health Technologies and Informatics (Stud HIT) or in GMS Medical Informatics, Biometrics, and Epidemiology (MIBE). GMDS’ aim is to increase the attractiveness of the conference and paper submission process in particular for young scientists and to increase the visibility of the conference. A standardized peer review process was established. Since 2017, a 25–35% of the contributions have been submitted as full papers. A total of 177 papers were published in Stud HTI. With an unofficial journal impact factor of 1.088 (2019) and 0.540 (2020), the papers were cited with a frequency similarly to national medical journals or full paper contributions of International medical informatics conferences.
ABSTRACT Situated and context-sensitive information logistics surface as decisive requirement for... more ABSTRACT Situated and context-sensitive information logistics surface as decisive requirement for supporting critical care units, because information relevant for patient treatment stems from heterogeneous as well as distributed data sources. Immediate treatment starts with an incomplete and almost empty array of information which fills continuously over time by examinations conducted by organizationally as well as geographically distributed departments. Agent technology and multiagent systems appear as a promising enabling technology to improve information logistics in intensive care units. However, an overall development methodology is required that enables an engineering process from the capture of know-how about clinical processes towards a model-based generation of multiagent systems. This contribution reports on an agile development methodology used for the design, implementation and testing of applications for agent-based information logistics.
During patient care physicians have to make important decisions, often based upon uncertain and i... more During patient care physicians have to make important decisions, often based upon uncertain and incomplete data, about diagnostic and therapeutic actions. Various kinds of decision support exist in form of paper-based recommendations and guidelines, yet only a few proactive systems support the physician in select-ing and executing these guidelines. This thesis contributes to the research on computerized clinical guidelines by as-sessing, combining and extending existing methods and technologies used for automating clinical guidelines: A meta-model is developed to capture process knowledge which exists e.g. in form of guidelines. The model is based upon the main common elements of computerized guideline languages and is for the first time ex-tended by a strategic level by means of specific goal modelling. An execution engine is implemented which is based on flexible workflow techniques and connected by an HL7 interface to communicate with a pa-tient data management system. User inter...
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