Studies in health technology and informatics
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Stud Health Technol Inform · Jan 2003
Enabling virtual emergency healthcare enterprises using Web services.
Emergency healthcare delivery involves a variety of activities performed from the time of a call to the ambulance service till the time of patient's disposal from the emergency department of a hospital. As these activities are performed in at least two organizations (i.e. ambulance service and hospital) and they are interrelated to form inter-organizational healthcare processes, collaboration and coordination become a vital issue for patients and for emergency healthcare service performance. ⋯ Thus, through process automation and the use of web services ambulance service and hospital emergency departments can automate their operations by making information available where and when needed and by providing an infrastructure for the integration of pre-hospital and in-hospital emergency healthcare. A prototype implementation of this approach is presented in this paper.
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The Arden Syntax is a simple syntax that allows physicians to encode medical knowledge in small modules, called medical logic modules (MLM). These MLM are well suited to data-driven alerts and reminders. ⋯ Our work proposes an environment that simulates various elements required by MLMs, allowing the students to execute the MLMs they have written immediately. This provides the necessary feedback to understand in depth the inner workings of MLMs.
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Stud Health Technol Inform · Jan 2003
Transatlantic medical education: preliminary data on distance-based high-fidelity human patient simulation training.
Advanced training using Human Patient Simulators (HPS) is, for the large part, unavailable for the majority of healthcare providers in rural, remote, and less developed regions of the world--either due to their separation from the major medical education centers or significant fiscal austerity. Remote access to HPS based on the Applications Software Provider principles may provide the solution to this problem. The medical ASP (MED-ASP) concept proposed and developed by MedSMART has been subjected to an extensive qualitative and quantitative international test conducted among France, Italy, and USA. ⋯ Moreover, we now validate for the first time the concept of simulation-based, fully interactive transatlantic medical ADL that we have proposed in our previous theoretical papers. The present experiments prove that training based on advanced technologies transcends barriers of distance, time, and national medical guidelines. Hence, international simulation-based distance training may ultimately provide the most realistic platform for a large-scale training of emergency medical personnel in less developed countries and in rural/remote regions of the globe.
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Stud Health Technol Inform · Jan 2003
Case ReportsDevelopment of a computer assisted craniofacial surgery planning system.
Based upon the idea that both facial appearance and functional outcomes of the craniofacial surgery need to be predicted in the pre-surgery planning stage, a CACSP system has been established. In this system, the input is in vivo CT/MRI scan data of patient with craniofacial deformity, anatomical restoration is simulated using the medical visualization packages ANALYZE, and the finite element analysis of the masticatory system has been integrated to predict the functional improvement such as bite force alteration. Preliminary studies in this laboratory have revealed the potential of this system.
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Stud Health Technol Inform · Jan 2003
Ten years of medical informatics education experience at the Faculty of Medicine in Sarajevo.
The medical informatics as the separate medical discipline very quickly gets developed, both in Bosnia and Herzegovina. In our country, the medical informatics is a separate subject for the last ten years, regarding to the Medical curriculum at the biomedical faculties in Bosnia and Herzegovina is in accordance with the project of the education related to Bologna declaration and the project EURO MEDICINA. This year the Chair of the Medical Informatics of the Medical Faculty in Sarajevo celebrates ten years of its existence. ⋯ The education in the field of the medical informatics is based at the concept which is used in the developed countries of the world, and according the recommendations of the working groups of the European and world association of the medical informatics. The theoretical and practical teaching and training performance in the wholeness is performed by use of the computer equipment, and the final knowledge check of the students also is performed using the Data Base Management System MSAccess specifically designed to cover full teaching and training material by using questions set in the data base which encircled nearly 1500 questions combinations.