title: A computational infrastructure for evaluating Care-Coordination and Telehealth services in Europe.
abstract: This paper presents the computational framework that is employed for the analysis of health related key drivers and indicators within ACT, a project aiming to improve the deployment of Care Coordination and Telehealth services/programmes across Europe, through an iterative evidence collection-evaluation-refinement process. An open-source solution is proposed, combining a series of established software technologies. The paper focuses on technical aspects of the framework and presents a worked example of a usage scenario.
authors.affiliation: Lab of Medical Informatics, Dept. Medicine, Aristotle Univ. Thessaloniki, Greece.
authors.forename: Pantelis
authors.initials: P
authors.lastname: Natsiavas
authors.affiliation: Lab of Medical Informatics, Dept. Medicine, Aristotle Univ. Thessaloniki, Greece.
authors.forename: Dimitiris
authors.initials: D
authors.lastname: Filos
authors.affiliation: Lab of Medical Informatics, Dept. Medicine, Aristotle Univ. Thessaloniki, Greece.
authors.forename: Christos
authors.initials: C
authors.lastname: Maramis
authors.affiliation: Lab of Medical Informatics, Dept. Medicine, Aristotle Univ. Thessaloniki, Greece.
authors.forename: Ioanna
authors.initials: I
authors.lastname: Chouvarda
authors.affiliation: Philips Research Laboratories, Eindhoven, The Netherlands.
authors.forename: Helen
authors.initials: H
authors.lastname: Schonenberg
authors.affiliation: Philips Research Laboratories, Eindhoven, The Netherlands.
authors.forename: Steffen
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Pauws
authors.affiliation: Philips Healthcare, Boeblingen, Germany.
authors.forename: Cristina
authors.initials: C
authors.lastname: Bescos
authors.affiliation: Philips Healthcare, Boeblingen, Germany.
authors.forename: Christoph
authors.initials: C
authors.lastname: Westerteicher
authors.affiliation: Lab of Medical Informatics, Dept. Medicine, Aristotle Univ. Thessaloniki, Greece.
authors.forename: Nicos
authors.initials: N
authors.lastname: Maglaveras
mesh_terms: D019090:Case Management / Q000592:standards*; D005060:Europe; D055991:Health Records, Personal; D016347:Medical Records Systems, Computerized / Q000592:standards*; D015397:Program Evaluation / Q000592:standards*; D011785:Quality Assurance, Health Care / Q000379:methods*; D012984:Software; D017216:Telemedicine / Q000592:standards*; D014584:User-Computer Interface