Biomedical subjects

N Bricon-Souf

Publications and source records attributed to N Bricon-Souf.

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PubMed2000

A modelization of the task allocation problem for prescribing activity in an ICU.

The improvement of coordination between Health Care Professionals belonging different specialities and who are extremely mobile, is a crucial problem in Medicine. A workflow System is one example of the new informatics tools which facilitate the transfer of information and responsibility between health care providers. Medical informatics systems in particular should be reactive enough to cope with the flexibility of real work situations: in this paper, we present the task allocation problem. We distinguish between the workflow control process and the notifying process, which concerns the sharing out of the tasks between the actors concerned. We focus on the impact of strategies of notification on the progress of coordinated work. We propose a simulator to model and study the different ways of sharing tasks between actors in an Intensive Care Unit's activity of prescription.

Computer Simulation↗

PubMed1999

A simulation of dynamic tasks routing to improve cooperation in intensive care units.

Cooperation between Health Care Professionals is essential for the quality of care. Workflow systems could improve the transfer of informations and responsibilities within Health Care Actors. We have proposed a conversation-based Workflow in order to modelize the therapeutics plan in the ICU. In such a complex field, the flexibility of the workflow system is essential for the system to be usable. We have introduced some dynamicity by adding roles in the model. With the use of roles, the dynamicity of the workflow is assumed by the routing process. We need to use simulation to be able to study the impact of routing algorythms on the efficiency of the coordination.

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PubMed1998

Dynamic workflow model for complex activity in intensive care unit.

Cooperation is very important in Medical care, especially in the Intensive Care Unit (ICU) where the difficulties increase which is due to the urgency of the work. Workflow systems are considered as well adapted to modelize productive work in business process. We aim at introducing this approach in the Health Care domain. We have proposed a conversation-based Workflow in order to modelize the therapeutics plan in the ICU [1]. But in such a complex field, the flexibility of the workflow system is essential for the system to be usable. In this paper, we focus on the main points used to increase the dynamicity. We report on affecting roles, highlighting information, and controlling the system We propose some solutions and describe our prototype in the ICU.

Humans↗

PubMed1997

An asynchronous co-operative model for co-ordinating medical unit activities.

CSCW is devoted to the analysis of interactions among human beings when performing their work together (Ellis et al., Commun. ACM 1 (34) (1991) 38-58). The main fields of application are work organisation, healthcare, education and training. Our main goal is to study the co-operative models allowing task co-ordination and conflict management between actors within a distributed environment, particularly in medical units. We do not aim to produce a practical system suitable for near-term deployment in the intensive care units (ICU), but rather an experimental system that performs and co-ordinates a range of intelligent planning tasks in ICU activities. The emphasis will be put especially on asynchronous co-operation. We apply the Workflow approach to ICU organisation through the analysis and the proposal of a co-operative model.

Computer Simulation↗

PubMed1997

Telemedicine for AIDS patients accommodations.

People suffering from AIDS are subject to frequent hospitalisations. In some cases, they cannot go back home after hospitalisations, due to severe illness, family or sociologic problems. This is the reason why some therapeutic flats are at their disposal to make easier their medical follow-up after the hospital's discharge. In these Therapy Accommodation, they are treated by trained GP who often suffer from lack of information and lack of expertise in difficult cases. For this purpose we included these flats in the regional Telemedicine AIDS network to give these physicians free access to the computerised multimedia medical record of their patients and to provide them with synchronous co-operation facilities.

Acquired Immunodeficiency Syndrome↗

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Dynamic workflow model for complex activity in intensive care unit.

Co-operation is very important in Medical care, especially in the Intensive Care Unit (ICU) where the difficulties increase which is due to the urgency of the work. Workflow systems are considered as well adapted to modelize productive work in business process. We aim at introducing this approach in the Health Care domain. We have proposed a conversation-based workflow in order to modelize the therapeutics plan in the ICU [1]. But in such a complex field, the flexibility of the workflow system is essential for the system to be usable. We have concentrated on three main points usually proposed in the workflow models, suffering from a lack of dynamicity: static links between roles and actors, global notification of information changes, lack of human control on the system. In this paper, we focus on the main points used to increase the dynamicity. We report on affecting roles, highlighting information, and controlling the system. We propose some solutions and describe our prototype in the ICU.

Computer Simulation↗