Author_Institution :
IBM Thomas J. Watson Res. Center, Yorktown Heights, NY, USA
Abstract :
The author describes Guardian, a knowledge based home health-care support system in the domain of childhood leukaemia. Guardian is part of a joint project between IBM Research and the New England Medical Center for building a prototype home-care system for children with leukaemia. The prototype system consists of a set of applications, including consultation and symptoms analysis, procedure guidance, emotional support, and communications, implemented in Smalltalk/OS2. This article focuses on the knowledge-based system, which helps parents better understand the symptoms or problems their child is experiencing and provides them with relevant therapeutic information
Keywords :
medical expert systems; medical information systems; multimedia computing; software packages; Guardian; Smalltalk/OS2; childhood leukaemia; consultation; emotional support; home health-care support; knowledge based home health-care support system; knowledge-based system; multimedia information system; procedure guidance; symptoms analysis; therapeutic information; Diseases; Face; Hospitals; Information systems; Medical diagnostic imaging; Medical services; Medical treatment; Multimedia systems; Pediatrics; Prototypes;
