Biomedical subjects

W J ter Burg

Publications and source records attributed to W J ter Burg.

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PubMed2004

An international course on strategic information management for medical informatics students: aim, content, structure, and experiences.

We report on a course for medical informatics students on hospital information systems, especially on its strategic information management. Starting as course at the Medical Informatics Program of the University of Heidelberg/University of Applied Sciences Heilbronn, it is now organized as international course in the framework of the International Partnership for Health Informatics Education (http:// www.iphie.org) jointly for medical information science students from the University of Amsterdam, medical informatics students, as well as health information management students from the Universities of Heidelberg/Heilbronn. In 2002, medical informatics students from the Master of Science program of the newly founded University for Health Informatics and Technology Tyrol (UMIT) at Innsbruck, Austria, joined. We report about the aim of this course, its audience, and the educational programs involved, about its content and structure, as well as about our experiences gained so far.

Curriculum↗

PubMed1999

A diagnostic advice system based on pathophysiological models of diseases.

Medical decision-support systems in which uncertainty plays an essential role are increasingly based on the formalism of probabilistic networks. Although this formalism is very powerful, the construction of actual networks is not straightforward, and requires the availability of clearly structured medical domain models as a starting point. In this paper it is argued that medical pathophysiological knowledge constitutes a good start for the development of such models, even though pathophysiological knowledge is semantically different from probabilistic knowledge. Two models concerning anaemia, which are part of a broad system covering the domain of anaemia, are discussed to illustrate the general approach.

Anemia, Pernicious↗

PubMed1999

A development protocol for a diagnostic DSS.

A diagnostic decision support system (DSS) in medicine is an expert system that aids the physician in the determination of the diagnosis based on findings and test results. The DSS can be divided into 2 different types of components: the knowledge component and the information system component. Methods from software engineering, knowledge engineering and management are combined into a dynamic development cycle that allows stepwise update and refinement. The development of the knowledge component is based on knowledge engineering. In the starting phases, rapid prototyping is convenient to determine and evaluate the specification. The content of the knowledge base is frequently updated during its life time. For this purpose, a knowledge modelling protocol is supplied.

Artificial Intelligence↗