DebugIT for patient safety - improving the treatment with antibiotics through multimedia data mining of heterogeneous clinical data.

Full Abstract

The concepts and architecture underlying a large-scale integrating project funded within the 7th EU Framework Programme (FP7) are discussed. The main objective of the project is to build a tool that will have a significant impact for the monitoring and the control of infectious diseases and antimicrobial resistances in Europe; This will be realized by building a technical and semantic infrastructure able to share heterogeneous clinical data sets from different hospitals in different countries, with different languages and legislations; to analyze large amounts of this clinical data with advanced multimedia data mining and finally apply the obtained knowledge for clinical decisions and outcome monitoring. There are numerous challenges in this project at all levels, technical, semantical, legal and ethical that will have to be addressed.

Author information

Author/s: Lovis, Christian (C); Colaert, Dirk (D); Stroetmann, Veli N (VN);

Affiliation: University Hospitals of Geneva, University of Geneva, Switzerland. christian.lovis(-atsign-)hcuge.ch

Journal and publication information

Publication Type: Journal Article

Journal: Studies in health technology and informatics (Stud Health Technol Inform), published in Netherlands. (Language: eng)

Reference: 2008-; vol 136 (issue ) : pp 641-6

Dates: Created 2008/05/19; Completed 2008/09/30;

PMID: 18487803, status: MEDLINE (last retrieval date: 2/18/2009, IMS Date: )

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