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G Sindoni

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PubMed1997

A system to define and allocate health care resources on a territory to improve the life quality of the populations in developing countries.

In this paper the health resource allocation problem is discussed. An object-oriented system is proposed and its implemented prototype is illustrated. It consists of two parts: a Geographical Information System, which is able to acquire and store both geographical and social-epidemiological information (including the resource distribution on that territory), and a Decision Support System, able to decide, using optimization algorithms, the new resource allocation in order to obtain a quasi-optimal solution for the cost/benefit ratio minimization problem, after having fixed the goal (e.g., the decrease of the incidence of a given disease) and constraints (e.g., a fixed budget, a given set of available resources, etc.). The object-oriented database which is part of the system can simulate and store different scenarios, depending on the different goals and constraints defined in input, by means of a user friendly interface.

Algorithms↗
PubMed1997

Clinical protocol development using Inter/IntraNet technology: the FENARETE system.

In this work we present FENARETE, a software tool to design and distribute clinical protocols in an Inter/IntraNet framework. We consider a medical protocol as a clinical behaviour scheme, formally and clearly defined with sufficient details. Our work allows the knowledge content of any clinical protocol to be fully represented in a symbolic style. A computer based support tool that works as an interface between clinicians and the protocol knowledge base is regarded by the authors as a basic building block developing an integrated environment for medical protocols design and management. The FENARETE application has been developed in Java and it is available for any Internet-linked machine with a Java-compatible browser.

Clinical Protocols↗
PubMed1997

Browsing and querying multimedia report collections.

In this paper a system and new methodologies that enable efficient exploration of distributed collections of multimedia reports are described. A conceptual model for the report and a method to semi-automatically create a hypermedia report network have been defined. The main issues addressed in this project were to exploit the textual component of a report to give a more evident semantic meaning to the data produced during the relative exam and to provide users with new interaction paradigms based on Internet technologies.

Computer Communication Networks↗
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An object oriented decision support system for the planning of health resource allocation.

The health resource allocation problem is discussed in this paper. An object-oriented system, which consists of two parts is proposed and its implemented prototype is illustrated. The first part consists of a Geographical Information System which is able to acquire and store both geographical information regarding the territory under investigation and the socio-epidemiological information and the resource distribution in that moment on the same territory. The second part refers to the strategies and the relative algorithms carried out (using a Decision Support System) to obtain the best solution (allocation of new resources optimizing the cost/benefit ratio) after that the user has fixed a goal (e.g., the decrease of the incidence of a given disease) and has defined some constraints (e.g., a fixed budget, a given set of available resources, etc.). The object-oriented database stores different scenarios, depending on the different goals and constraints defined in input. A user friendly interface was also implemented.

Decision Making, Computer-Assisted↗