Enabling new healthcare services through an “on-line” ICT toolThere has been a paradigm shift in relation to the needs and expectations for ICT systems in healthcare, particularly related to Electronic Patient Record systems (EPRs). This poses several challenges for vendors (such as DIPS ASA) for the design of EPRs aiming at supporting new and innovative healthcare services. |
Detection of malignant melanoma based on lesion imagesComputer-aided diagnostics (CAD) systems are already widely used in practical clinical situations for tasks such as the detection of breast and lung cancer and melanoma. |
Romanian Pilot Centre for TelemedicineThe development of telemedical services is in its early stage in Romania, but there is a pressing need for alternative and innovative solutions in the health sector. This feasibility study will show what services should be chosen and a consolidation of the project team for a Romanian Pilot centre for Telemedicine. |
Workflow across organizational bordersContinuity of care requires a high degree of interaction and communication between the different organizational levels of the health care system. The main aim of the project is to examine and produce further knowledge on the processes of designing and implementing information systems for collaboration in health care across organisational borders. |
Using display walls for improved treatment of patients with chronic diseasesAs medical- or patient records are gradually developing into an electronic health record, the paper-based records; the individual documents, the collections of patient documents are broken up into small fragments of (medical-) knowledge and information in terms of clinical data . This is done through the system-development process. The computable atoms of medical information are later re-assembled into suitable information for health care purposes. The data are stored in databases and the document viewed is the computer extract of these data; the predefined selection-process that present the data to the users who generally are healthcare workers. The issue of assembling the data into a suitable form is regarded as a human-computer interaction / graphical user interface (HCI/GUI) task; how to create the perfect, or more correctly, the adequate interface to the information and medical knowledge so as to give the healthcare worker best possible ground to make correct medical/treatment decisions. |
Automatic detection of infectious diseasesTo prevent spreading of contagious diseases, an early detection is important. At the time an outbreak is diagnosed today, many people may already be infected. Thus, we need a system for detecting an epidemic outbreak at a very early stage. An ideal system should be able to prevent large outbreaks of infectious diseases, such as different strains of Influenza, Cholera, Plague, Ebola, Anthrax, and SARS. An infected person may be contagious before the first symptoms appear. This person can in the period of disease evolution, infect several associated citizen before consultation with a general practitioner. To prevent spreading of infections an early detection of contagion is very important. |
User-interaction in patient terminalsAs mobile phones and computers have become more common there is increasing interest in using these devices for providing health related services. |
Telemedicine in private homesA promising application of distributed computing, in both cost/benefit and effectiveness, is the use of computer systems to monitor and control clients in the home-based caring-service. Along with a growing number of senior citizens, the costs necessary to offer a decent health care will increase. Through monitoring equipment, alarm functions, medical equipment, etc., it is possible to prolong the period a patient can safely stay at home, and thus both reduce the costs for the municipality and increase the patients quality of life. Reduced costs may also imply that more people can receive help from home-based caring service. One application of this technology is the home-based caring-service. |
Net based medication recordInformation about chronic patients' medication is stored in different information sources in different organizations (hospitals, general practitioners, emergency units, nursing homes and in people's homes). As many chronic patients are in regular contacts with all these organizations, it is difficult to have a clear picture of which medications the patient is using. |
Correlation between pathological conditions and biometric dataEarly Warning Systems (EWS) based on biometric data are used to alert health-care providers and authorities about emerging health problems on the individual level. |
Detection and prediction of spreads of disease outbreak based on syndromic dataEarly Warning Systems (EWS) are used to alert health-care providers and authorities about emerging health problems. |
MyHealthService - personal healthcare technology and services for elderly chronically illIn the project MyHealthStation in 2005, NST, Well, UNN and Norut designed and developed a prototype of a system for home based training, self-management and following-up of patients/chronically ill over broadband networks. |
Designing Dips nursing plansThe ageing of the population and the increase in chronic, long-standing illnesses, as well as peoples rising expectations, put increased pressure on health care provision. Accordingly, there are reiterating ambitions of streamlining health care through notions such as shared care, integrated care, and continuity of care for patients that require complex, and often long-term care. |
eHealth System for Oral Anticoagulation Therapy (Tele-Warf)Near patient testing techniques for measuring of INR in primary care settings have shown to be reliable, accurate and popular among the patients. |
Symptom based surveillanceThe current disease surveillance system in Norway is based on reporting from laboratories and primary care physicians. This kind of disease surveillance systems has two major disadvantages. |
Context-sensitive systems for mobile communication in hospitalsThe current generation of communication technology in hospitals has several drawbacks. Wireless phones for example create a risk that individual physicians will become overloaded with unnecessary interruptions. |
