Using Arden Syntax for the creation of a multi-patient surveillance dashboard.

Journal: Artificial intelligence in medicine
Published Date: Nov 1, 2018

Abstract

OBJECTIVE: Most practically deployed Arden-Syntax-based clinical decision support (CDS) modules process data from individual patients. The specification of Arden Syntax, however, would in principle also support multi-patient CDS. The patient data management system (PDMS) at our local intensive care units does not natively support patient overviews from customizable CDS routines, but local physicians indicated a demand for multi-patient tabular overviews of important clinical parameters such as key laboratory measurements. As our PDMS installation provides Arden Syntax support, we set out to explore the capability of Arden Syntax for multi-patient CDS by implementing a prototypical dashboard for visualizing laboratory findings from patient sets.

Authors

  • Stefan Kraus
    Center for Communication and Information Technology, University Hospital Erlangen, Glückstr. 11, 91054 Erlangen, Germany; Department of Medical Informatics, Biometrics and Epidemiology, Chair of Medical Informatics, Friedrich-Alexander-University Erlangen-Nuremberg, Wetterkreuz 13, 91058 Erlangen, Germany.
  • Caroline Drescher
    Department of Medical Informatics, Biometrics and Epidemiology, Chair of Medical Informatics, Friedrich-Alexander-University Erlangen-Nuremberg, Wetterkreuz 13, 91058 Erlangen-Tennenlohe, Germany.
  • Martin Sedlmayr
    Department of Medical Informatics, Biometrics and Epidemiology, Chair of Medical Informatics, Friedrich-Alexander-University Erlangen-Nuremberg, Wetterkreuz 13, 91058 Erlangen-Tennenlohe, Germany. Electronic address: martin.sedlmayr@fau.de.
  • Ixchel Castellanos
    Department of Anaesthesiology, University Hospital Erlangen, Krankenhausstr. 12, 91054 Erlangen, Germany. Electronic address: ixchel.castellanos@kfa.imed.uni-erlangen.de.
  • Hans-Ulrich Prokosch
    Institute for Medical Informatics, University Erlangen-Nuremberg, Erlangen, Germany; Center for Medical Information and Communication, Erlangen University Hospital, Erlangen, Germany.
  • Dennis Toddenroth
    Institute for Medical Informatics, University Erlangen-Nuremberg, Erlangen, Germany.

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