Title :
Decision support systems and communication in medicine at the University of Limburg
Author_Institution :
Dept. of Med. Inf. & Stat., Limburg Univ., Netherlands
Abstract :
Examples are presented of research in the areas of decision support and electronic communication. In electronic communication a project known as the 3I project (for Inter Institutional Information exchange project) is described. The goal of the project is to provide an electronic communication link between hospitals, GP offices, and pharmacies. Use is made of the public electronic mail facility MEMOCOM of the Dutch PTT. In the area of decision support, two projects are discussed. They concern the development of an expert system for the interpretation of noninvasive test data in patients with peripheral vascular disease and the development of a knowledge-based system for surveillance of antiepileptic medication
Keywords :
electronic mail; expert systems; medical computing; Dutch PTT; GP offices; Inter Institutional Information exchange project; MEMOCOM; University of Limburg; antiepileptic medication; decision support; electronic communication; hospitals; knowledge-based system; medical expert system; noninvasive test data; peripheral vascular disease; pharmacies; public electronic mail facility; Biomedical informatics; Communication standards; Decision support systems; Health information management; Hospitals; Medical diagnostic imaging; Medical services; Standards development; Statistics; Tellurium;
Conference_Titel :
Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society, 1989. Images of the Twenty-First Century., Proceedings of the Annual International Conference of the IEEE Engineering in
Conference_Location :
Seattle, WA
DOI :
10.1109/IEMBS.1989.96495
