2020
Sousa, R.; Ferreira, D.; Abelha, A.; Machado, J.
Step Towards Monitoring Intelligent Agents in Healthcare Information Systems Proceedings Article
Em: A., Reis L. P. Adeli H. Rocha (Ed.): pp. 510-519, Springer, 2020, ISSN: 21945357, (cited By 4; Conference of 8th World Conference on Information Systems and Technologies, WorldCIST 2020 ; Conference Date: 7 April 2020 Through 10 April 2020; Conference Code:240259).
Resumo | Links | BibTeX | Etiquetas: Clinical information; Data availability; Health care information system; Health facilities; Heterogeneous information; Hospital environment; Integrating information; Surveillance platforms, Information use; Intelligent agents; Interoperability; Medical computing, Medical information systems
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abstract = {A platform for establishing interoperability between heterogeneous information systems implemented in a hospital environment is more a requirement than an option. The Agency for the Integration, Diffusion and Archiving of Medical and Clinical Information (AIDA) is an interoperability platform designed specifically to address the problem of integrating information from multiple systems and addressing interoperability, confidentiality, integrity and data availability. This article focuses on the relevance and need for such vigilance, finding and designing effective new ways to establish them. This study culminated in the creation of AIDAMonit, a surveillance platform developed and tested by ALGORITMI Center researchers, which has shown promise and is extremely beneficial for the well-functioning of the health facilities currently using the AIDA platform. © 2020, The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerland AG.},
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A platform for establishing interoperability between heterogeneous information systems implemented in a hospital environment is more a requirement than an option. The Agency for the Integration, Diffusion and Archiving of Medical and Clinical Information (AIDA) is an interoperability platform designed specifically to address the problem of integrating information from multiple systems and addressing interoperability, confidentiality, integrity and data availability. This article focuses on the relevance and need for such vigilance, finding and designing effective new ways to establish them. This study culminated in the creation of AIDAMonit, a surveillance platform developed and tested by ALGORITMI Center researchers, which has shown promise and is extremely beneficial for the well-functioning of the health facilities currently using the AIDA platform. © 2020, The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerland AG.
Faria, S.; Oliveira, D.; Abelha, A.; Machado, J.
Intelligent support system for the provision of inpatient care Proceedings Article
Em: A., Montenegro Marin C. E. Ferras C. Rocha (Ed.): pp. 364-374, Springer, 2020, ISSN: 21945357, (cited By 0; Conference of International Conference on Information Technology and Systems, ICITS 2020 ; Conference Date: 5 February 2020 Through 7 February 2020; Conference Code:236869).
Resumo | Links | BibTeX | Etiquetas: Clinical decision support systems; Health facilities; Health professionals; Healthcare environments; Intelligent support; Irreversible damage; Support systems; Surgical procedures, Decision support systems; Health care; Intelligent agents; Intelligent systems; Multi agent systems; Patient treatment, Medical information systems
@inproceedings{Faria2020364,
title = {Intelligent support system for the provision of inpatient care},
author = {S. Faria and D. Oliveira and A. Abelha and J. Machado},
editor = {Montenegro Marin C. E. Ferras C. Rocha A.},
url = {https://www.scopus.com/inward/record.uri?eid=2-s2.0-85080957489&doi=10.1007%2f978-3-030-40690-5_36&partnerID=40&md5=a95340e25e84258ad28a4bdcb78eac48},
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year = {2020},
date = {2020-01-01},
journal = {Advances in Intelligent Systems and Computing},
volume = {1137 AISC},
pages = {364-374},
publisher = {Springer},
abstract = {Inpatient care is seen as a rigorous healthcare environment, as several daily tasks are performed to provide adequate treatment to inpatients and a minor flaw in these tasks may result in irreversible damage to patients. It is therefore required that the information related to the patient is always updated and available to all health professionals. Thus, comes up the motivation of the project described in this paper, which presents an intelligent system to support the practice of inpatient healthcare through a Web platform that allows the monitoring of patients admitted to a health facility. Thus, the developed system culminates in an application where all relevant information is gathered to monitor the different hospitalization episodes, presenting this information in a simplistic and intuitive way and alerting the professionals to the occurrence of events related to medical exams and analysis, surgical procedures, among others. This paper presents the architecture, the requirements and a SWOT analysis of the solution proposed, the main conclusions and a proposed future work. © Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2020.},
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Inpatient care is seen as a rigorous healthcare environment, as several daily tasks are performed to provide adequate treatment to inpatients and a minor flaw in these tasks may result in irreversible damage to patients. It is therefore required that the information related to the patient is always updated and available to all health professionals. Thus, comes up the motivation of the project described in this paper, which presents an intelligent system to support the practice of inpatient healthcare through a Web platform that allows the monitoring of patients admitted to a health facility. Thus, the developed system culminates in an application where all relevant information is gathered to monitor the different hospitalization episodes, presenting this information in a simplistic and intuitive way and alerting the professionals to the occurrence of events related to medical exams and analysis, surgical procedures, among others. This paper presents the architecture, the requirements and a SWOT analysis of the solution proposed, the main conclusions and a proposed future work. © Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2020.
2019
Neto, C.; Ferreira, D.; Abelha, A.; Machado, J.
Improving healthcare delivery with new interactive visualization methods Proceedings Article
Em: L.P., Adeli H. Costanzo S. Reis (Ed.): pp. 537-546, Springer Verlag, 2019, ISSN: 21945357, (cited By 1; Conference of World Conference on Information Systems and Technologies, WorldCIST 2019 ; Conference Date: 16 April 2019 Through 19 April 2019; Conference Code:224789).
Resumo | Links | BibTeX | Etiquetas: Computer resources; Electronic health record; Health information systems; Healthcare delivery; Interactive visualizations; Management systems; Medical exams; Visualization platforms, Data visualization; Diagnosis; Health care; Hospitals; Information technology; Information use; Management information systems; Medical problems; Visualization, Medical information systems
@inproceedings{Neto2019537,
title = {Improving healthcare delivery with new interactive visualization methods},
author = {C. Neto and D. Ferreira and A. Abelha and J. Machado},
editor = {Adeli H. Costanzo S. Reis L.P.},
url = {https://www.scopus.com/inward/record.uri?eid=2-s2.0-85065059735&doi=10.1007%2f978-3-030-16187-3_52&partnerID=40&md5=c29515a1ef6bed1adaedb3a89b90a93f},
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year = {2019},
date = {2019-01-01},
journal = {Advances in Intelligent Systems and Computing},
volume = {932},
pages = {537-546},
publisher = {Springer Verlag},
abstract = {Over the last years, the implementation and evolution of computer resources in hospital institutions has been improving both the financial and temporal efficiency of clinical processes, as well as the security in the transmission and maintenance of their data, also ensuring the reduction of clinical risk. Diagnosis, treatment and prevention of human illness are some of the most information-intensive of all intellectual tasks. Health providers often do not have or cannot find the information they need to respond quickly and appropriately to patient’s medical problems. Failure to review and follow up on patient’s test results in a timely manner, for example, represents a patient’s safety and malpractice concern. Therefore, it was sought to identify problems in a medical exams results management system and possible ways to improve this system in order to reduce both clinical risks and hospital costs. In this sense, a new medical exams visualization platform (AIDA-MCDT) was developed, specifically in the Hospital Center of Porto (CHP), with several new functionalities in order to make this process faster, intuitive and efficient, always guaranteeing the confidentiality and protection of patients’ personal data and significantly improving the usability of the system, leading to a better health care delivery. © Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2019.},
note = {cited By 1; Conference of World Conference on Information Systems and Technologies, WorldCIST 2019 ; Conference Date: 16 April 2019 Through 19 April 2019; Conference Code:224789},
keywords = {Computer resources; Electronic health record; Health information systems; Healthcare delivery; Interactive visualizations; Management systems; Medical exams; Visualization platforms, Data visualization; Diagnosis; Health care; Hospitals; Information technology; Information use; Management information systems; Medical problems; Visualization, Medical information systems},
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Over the last years, the implementation and evolution of computer resources in hospital institutions has been improving both the financial and temporal efficiency of clinical processes, as well as the security in the transmission and maintenance of their data, also ensuring the reduction of clinical risk. Diagnosis, treatment and prevention of human illness are some of the most information-intensive of all intellectual tasks. Health providers often do not have or cannot find the information they need to respond quickly and appropriately to patient’s medical problems. Failure to review and follow up on patient’s test results in a timely manner, for example, represents a patient’s safety and malpractice concern. Therefore, it was sought to identify problems in a medical exams results management system and possible ways to improve this system in order to reduce both clinical risks and hospital costs. In this sense, a new medical exams visualization platform (AIDA-MCDT) was developed, specifically in the Hospital Center of Porto (CHP), with several new functionalities in order to make this process faster, intuitive and efficient, always guaranteeing the confidentiality and protection of patients’ personal data and significantly improving the usability of the system, leading to a better health care delivery. © Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2019.
2014
Cardoso, L.; Marins, F.; Quintas, C.; Portela, F.; Santos, M. F.; Abelha, A.; Machado, J.
Interoperability in healthcare Book Chapter
Em: pp. 78-101, IGI Global, 2014, ISBN: 9781466661196; 1466661186; 9781466661189, (cited By 7).
Resumo | Links | BibTeX | Etiquetas: Health care information system; Health care professionals; Heterogeneous information; High availability; Medical information; Patient information; Quality of health care; Sharing information, Health care; Information systems; Interoperability; Medical computing; Multi agent systems, Medical information systems
@inbook{Cardoso201478,
title = {Interoperability in healthcare},
author = {L. Cardoso and F. Marins and C. Quintas and F. Portela and M. F. Santos and A. Abelha and J. Machado},
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journal = {Cloud Computing Applications for Quality Health Care Delivery},
pages = {78-101},
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abstract = {With the advancement of technology, patient information has been being computerized in order to facilitate the work of healthcare professionals and improve the quality of healthcare delivery. However, there are many heterogeneous information systems that need to communicate, sharing information and making it available when and where it is needed. To respond to this requirement the Agency for Integration, Diffusion, and Archiving of medical information (AIDA) was created, a multi-agent and service-based platform that ensures interoperability among healthcare information systems. In order to improve the performance of the platform, beyond the SWOT analysis performed, a system to prevent failures that may occur in the platform database and also in machines where the agents are executed was created. The system has been implemented in the Centro Hospitalar do Porto (one of the major Portuguese hospitals), and it is now possible to define critical workload periods of AIDA, improving high availability and load balancing. This is explored in this chapter. © 2014 by IGI Global. All rights reserved.},
note = {cited By 7},
keywords = {Health care information system; Health care professionals; Heterogeneous information; High availability; Medical information; Patient information; Quality of health care; Sharing information, Health care; Information systems; Interoperability; Medical computing; Multi agent systems, Medical information systems},
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With the advancement of technology, patient information has been being computerized in order to facilitate the work of healthcare professionals and improve the quality of healthcare delivery. However, there are many heterogeneous information systems that need to communicate, sharing information and making it available when and where it is needed. To respond to this requirement the Agency for Integration, Diffusion, and Archiving of medical information (AIDA) was created, a multi-agent and service-based platform that ensures interoperability among healthcare information systems. In order to improve the performance of the platform, beyond the SWOT analysis performed, a system to prevent failures that may occur in the platform database and also in machines where the agents are executed was created. The system has been implemented in the Centro Hospitalar do Porto (one of the major Portuguese hospitals), and it is now possible to define critical workload periods of AIDA, improving high availability and load balancing. This is explored in this chapter. © 2014 by IGI Global. All rights reserved.
1999
Neves, J.; Cortez, P.; Rocha, M.; Abelha, A.; MacHado, J.; Alves, V.; Basto, S.; Botelho, H.; Neves, J.
A unified framework for data modeling on medical information systems Proceedings Article
Em: pp. 68-71, IOS Press, Ljubljana, 1999, ISSN: 09269630, (cited By 0; Conference of 15th Congress on Medical Informatics Europe, MIE 1999 ; Conference Date: 22 August 1999 Through 26 August 1999).
Resumo | Links | BibTeX | Etiquetas: article; artificial intelligence; computer assisted diagnosis; computer assisted therapy; computer program; computer simulation; expert system; human; medical informatics, Artificial Intelligence; Computer Simulation; Diagnosis, Basic designs; Length of stay; Level of Service; Patient care; Patient education; Unified framework, Bioinformatics; Clinical research; Information use; Medical computing; Medical education, Computer-Assisted, Computer-Assisted; Expert Systems; Humans; Medical Informatics Computing; Software; Therapy, Medical information systems
@inproceedings{Neves199968,
title = {A unified framework for data modeling on medical information systems},
author = {J. Neves and P. Cortez and M. Rocha and A. Abelha and J. MacHado and V. Alves and S. Basto and H. Botelho and J. Neves},
url = {https://www.scopus.com/inward/record.uri?eid=2-s2.0-0033251335&doi=10.3233%2f978-1-60750-912-7-68&partnerID=40&md5=404bff3ecb8e5585fe3c1c9fdd1459a6},
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date = {1999-01-01},
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abstract = {Medical Information Systems (MIS) are seen as a way of optimizing the use of existing health-care infrastructure, without resorting to new and costly hospital (re)construction. The qualitative (re)design of such an environment requires a basic understanding of patient and doctors related characteristics and capabilities. Patient care, patient education, medical education, and clinical research need to be considered to meet the basic requirements on the level of services desirable, determined on the basis of the patient's length of stay; i.e., used for modeling the significant entities of such a world. The aim is to extract conclusions for the level of services provided to the users. One's concept will capture, as well as will integrate, the basic design principles under which MIS may be set.},
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Medical Information Systems (MIS) are seen as a way of optimizing the use of existing health-care infrastructure, without resorting to new and costly hospital (re)construction. The qualitative (re)design of such an environment requires a basic understanding of patient and doctors related characteristics and capabilities. Patient care, patient education, medical education, and clinical research need to be considered to meet the basic requirements on the level of services desirable, determined on the basis of the patient's length of stay; i.e., used for modeling the significant entities of such a world. The aim is to extract conclusions for the level of services provided to the users. One's concept will capture, as well as will integrate, the basic design principles under which MIS may be set.