Plea for use of intelligent information and communication technologies in infection surveillance and benchmarking by healthcare institutions

HEALTHINF 2014 - 7th International Conference on Health Informatics, Proceedings; Part of 7th International Joint Conference on Biomedical Engineering Systems and Technologies, BIOSTEC 2014

Volumn , Issue , 2014, Pages 399-404

  Koller, Walter ^a   Adlassnig, Klaus Peter ^a,b   Rappelsberger, Andrea ^a   Blacky, Alexander ^a  

^a MEDICAL UNIVERSITY OF VIENNA   (Austria)

^b Medexter Healthcare GmbH   (Austria)

Author keywords

Hospital benchmarking; Intelligent decision support systems; Intelligent information and communication technologies in healthcare and medicine; Knowledge management; Surveillance of healthcare associated infections

Indexed keywords

ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE; AUTOMATION; BIOMEDICAL ENGINEERING; DECISION SUPPORT SYSTEMS; HEALTH CARE; KNOWLEDGE MANAGEMENT; MEDICAL INFORMATICS; MEDICINE; MONITORING; QUALITY ASSURANCE; SAFETY ENGINEERING;

BEST PRACTICE METHODS; ERROR PREVENTION; HEALTHCARE INSTITUTIONS; INTELLIGENT DATA; INTELLIGENT DECISION SUPPORT SYSTEMS; INTELLIGENT INFORMATION; MONITORING SYSTEM; QUALITY INDICATORS;

BENCHMARKING;

EID: 84902332731     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.5220/0004902303990404     Document Type: Conference Paper

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