Improving healthcare services using web based platform for management of medical case studies
Ogescu, C.; Plaisanu, C.; Udrescu, F.; Dumitru, S.
Studies in Health Technology and Informatics 137: 165-171
2008
ISSN/ISBN: 0926-9630 PMID: 18560078 Document Number: 617815
The paper presents a web based platform for management of medical cases, support for healthcare specialists in taking the best clinical decision. Research has been oriented mostly on multimedia data management, classification algorithms for querying, retrieving and processing different medical data types (text and images). The medical case studies can be accessed by healthcare specialists and by students as anonymous case studies providing trust and confidentiality in Internet virtual environment. The MIDAS platform develops an intelligent framework to manage sets of medical data (text, static or dynamic images), in order to optimize the diagnosis and the decision process, which will reduce the medical errors and will increase the quality of medical act. MIDAS is an integrated project working on medical information retrieval from heterogeneous, distributed medical multimedia database.