Using Semantic Components to Represent Dynamics of an Interdisciplinary Healthcare Team in a Multi-Agent Decision Support System

Journal of Medical Systems

Volumn 40, Issue 2, 2016, Pages 1-12

  Wilk, Szymon ^a   Kezadri Hamiaz, Mounira ^b   Rosu, Daniela ^b   Kuziemsky, Craig ^b   Michalowski, Wojtek ^b   Amyot, Daniel ^b   Carrier, Marc ^c  

^a POZNAN UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Poland)

^b UNIVERSITY OF OTTAWA   (Canada)

^c OTTAWA HOSPITAL RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (Canada)

Author keywords

Clinical workflow; First order logic; Interdisciplinary healthcare team; Multi agent system; Ontology

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHM; ARTICLE; DECISION SUPPORT SYSTEM; HEALTH CARE ORGANIZATION; HEALTH CARE SYSTEM; HUMAN; INTERDISCIPLINARY HEALTHCARE TEAM; KNOWLEDGE; LOGIC; ONTOLOGY; PATIENT CARE; PRACTICE GUIDELINE; SEMANTICS; SKILL; TASK PERFORMANCE; TEAMWORK; WORKFLOW; CLINICAL DECISION SUPPORT SYSTEM; EXPERT SYSTEM; GROUP PROCESS; HEALTH PERSONNEL ATTITUDE; ORGANIZATION AND MANAGEMENT; PROCEDURES;

ATTITUDE OF HEALTH PERSONNEL; DECISION SUPPORT SYSTEMS, CLINICAL; EXPERT SYSTEMS; GROUP PROCESSES; HUMANS; PATIENT CARE MANAGEMENT; PATIENT CARE TEAM; SEMANTICS; WORKFLOW;

EID: 84947547626     PISSN: 01485598     EISSN: 1573689X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10916-015-0375-3     Document Type: Article

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