title: Design and implementation of the standards-based personal intelligent self-management system (PICS).
abstract: Against the background of demographic change and a diminishing care workforce there is a growing need for personalized decision support. The aim of this paper is to describe the design and implementation of the standards-based personal intelligent care systems (PICS). PICS makes consistent use of internationally accepted standards such as the Health Level 7 (HL7) Arden syntax for the representation of the decision logic, HL7 Clinical Document Architecture for information representation and is based on a open-source service-oriented architecture framework and a business process management system. Its functionality is exemplified for the application scenario of a patient suffering from congestive heart failure. Several vital signs sensors provide data for the decision support system, and a number of flexible communication channels are available for interaction with patient or caregiver. PICS is a standards-based, open and flexible system enabling personalized decision support. Further development will include the implementation of components on small computers and sensor nodes.
authors.affiliation: Institute of Technology and Hannover Medical School, Germany. tobias.von.bargen@plri.de
authors.forename: Tobias
authors.initials: T
authors.lastname: von Bargen
authors.forename: Matthias
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Gietzelt
authors.forename: Matthias
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Britten
authors.forename: Bianying
authors.initials: B
authors.lastname: Song
authors.forename: Klaus-Hendrik
authors.initials: KH
authors.lastname: Wolf
authors.forename: Martin
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Kohlmann
authors.forename: Michael
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Marschollek
authors.forename: Reinhold
authors.initials: R
authors.lastname: Haux
mesh_terms: D001185:Artificial Intelligence; D020000:Decision Support Systems, Clinical; D005858:Germany; D017410:Practice Guidelines as Topic; D012648:Self Care / Q000379:methods* / Q000592:standards*; D012984:Software; D012985:Software Design; D014584:User-Computer Interface