An informative system for chronic heart failure patients follow-up (CHeF)

Author

Dalmiani, S. ; Passino, C. ; Macerata, A. ; Emdin, M.

Author_Institution

Inst. of Clinical Physiol., CNR, Pisa, Italy

fYear

2001

fDate

2001

Firstpage

569

Lastpage

572

Abstract

To face the challenge of chronic heart failure diagnostic work-up, an information system (CHeF) has been developed, which allows data collection from ambulatory and/or inpatients in order to improve individual care and to establish a database for prospective/retrospective analyses. A scalable structure has been adopted to let the system run in different environments (from stand-alone systems to those strictly integrated with external systems). The CHeF core system was designed as a meta-definition database, in order to follow frequently updated parameter tracking and to fit physicians´ research results. This structure, characterized by a dynamic interface developed in Java, permits rapid changes to structure and functionality

Keywords

Java; cardiology; medical information systems; patient care; patient monitoring; CHeF information system; Java language; ambulatory patients; chronic heart failure diagnostic work-up; chronic heart failure patient follow-up; data collection; dynamic interface; inpatients; meta-definition database; patient care; physician research results; scalable structure; updated parameter tracking; Cardiology; Data mining; Databases; Heart; Hospitals; Information systems; Medical diagnostic imaging; Physiology; Protocols; Workstations;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Computers in Cardiology 2001

Conference_Location

Rotterdam

ISSN

0276-6547

Print_ISBN

0-7803-7266-2

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/CIC.2001.977719

Filename

977719