Author:
Martin Luethi
Affiliation:
Picis, Inc., United States
Keyword(s):
Web services, medical calculators, drug dosage calculators, dynamic user interface.
Related
Ontology
Subjects/Areas/Topics:
Artificial Intelligence
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Biomedical Engineering
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Collaboration and e-Services
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Complex Systems Modeling and Simulation
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Data Engineering
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Decision Support Systems
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e-Business
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Enterprise Information Systems
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Expert Systems
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Health Information Systems
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Integration/Interoperability
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Interoperability
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Knowledge Engineering and Ontology Development
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Knowledge Management and Information Sharing
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Knowledge-Based Systems
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Online Medical Applications
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Ontologies and the Semantic Web
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Sensor Networks
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Simulation and Modeling
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Software Agents and Internet Computing
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Software and Architectures
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Symbolic Systems
Abstract:
This paper describes a prototype software application that makes use of Web services to retrieve medical content from an external Application Service Provider (ASP) service. The retrieved data is used by the system to dynamically generate user interface components within a user-customizable department information system and by clinicians to obtain results that will assist with medical decision-making. Medical forms are frequently built and rearranged by medical system administrators. From the perspective of clinical end users the content is seamlessly integrated and allows querying of dosages, interactions, and formulations using collected parameters such as age, weight, and physiological data. Whereas the use of standalone personal digital assistant (PDA) devices provides measurable benefits to clinicians, the feasibility of a seamless integration with user-customizable information systems has not been researched well. This paper describes one approach that could be taken to integra
te such medical calculators with a web-based clinical information system. The solution described is not intended to represent functionality available in any actual or planned product.
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