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Technological Innovations in the Development of Cardiovascular Clinical Information Systems

Journal of Medical Systems volume 36, pages 965–978 (2012)Cite this article

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Recent studies have shown that computerized clinical case management and decision support systems can be used to assist surgeons in the diagnosis of disease, optimize surgical operation, aid in drug therapy and decrease the cost of medical treatment. Therefore, medical informatics has become an extensive field of research and many of these approaches have demonstrated potential value for improving medical quality. The aim of this study was to develop a web-based cardiovascular clinical information system (CIS) based on innovative techniques, such as electronic medical records, electronic registries and automatic feature surveillance schemes, to provide effective tools and support for clinical care, decision-making, biomedical research and training activities. The CIS developed for this study contained monitoring, surveillance and model construction functions. The monitoring layer function provided a visual user interface. At the surveillance and model construction layers, we explored the application of model construction and intelligent prognosis to aid in making preoperative and postoperative predictions. With the use of the CIS, surgeons can provide reasonable conclusions and explanations in uncertain environments.

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This research was partially supported by National Science Council of Taiwan (NSC 97-2410-H-227-002-MY2).

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  1. Department of Information Management, National Taipei University of Nursing and Health Sciences, No. 365, Min-Ten Road, 11257, Taipei, Taiwan, Republic of China

    Nan-Chen Hsieh

  2. Division of Cardiovascular Surgery, Department of Surgery Heart Center, Cheng-Hsin General Hospital, Taiwan, Republic of China

    Chung-Yi Chang, Kuo-Chen Lee & Jeen-Chen Chen

  3. Department of Computer Science and Information Engineering, Tamkang University, No. 151, Ying-Chuan Road, 25137, Tamsui, Taipei County, Taiwan, Republic of China

    Chien-Hui Chan

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Hsieh, NC., Chang, CY., Lee, KC. et al. Technological Innovations in the Development of Cardiovascular Clinical Information Systems. J Med Syst 36, 965–978 (2012). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10916-010-9561-5

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Keywords

  • Cardiovascular disease
  • Clinical information system
  • Electronic registry
  • Decision making