title: DebugIT for patient safety - improving the treatment with antibiotics through multimedia data mining of heterogeneous clinical data.
abstract: The concepts and architecture underlying a large-scale integrating project funded within the 7th EU Framework Programme (FP7) are discussed. The main objective of the project is to build a tool that will have a significant impact for the monitoring and the control of infectious diseases and antimicrobial resistances in Europe; This will be realized by building a technical and semantic infrastructure able to share heterogeneous clinical data sets from different hospitals in different countries, with different languages and legislations; to analyze large amounts of this clinical data with advanced multimedia data mining and finally apply the obtained knowledge for clinical decisions and outcome monitoring. There are numerous challenges in this project at all levels, technical, semantical, legal and ethical that will have to be addressed.
authors.affiliation: University Hospitals of Geneva, University of Geneva, Switzerland. christian.lovis@hcuge.ch
authors.forename: Christian
authors.initials: C
authors.lastname: Lovis
authors.forename: Dirk
authors.initials: D
authors.lastname: Colaert
authors.forename: Veli N
authors.initials: VN
authors.lastname: Stroetmann
mesh_terms: D000900:Anti-Bacterial Agents / Q000627:therapeutic use*; D001185:Artificial Intelligence; D001424:Bacterial Infections / Q000188:drug therapy*; D003195:Computer Communication Networks; D020000:Decision Support Systems, Clinical; D004346:Drug Information Services; D024881:Drug Resistance, Bacterial; D064420:Drug-Related Side Effects and Adverse Reactions; D005060:Europe; D006801:Humans; D016247:Information Storage and Retrieval; D016347:Medical Records Systems, Computerized; D019303:Multilingualism; D019212:Multimedia; D012984:Software; D014584:User-Computer Interface
chemical_list: D000900:Anti-Bacterial Agents