In cancer treatment trials, physicians traditionally report patient toxicity symptoms, but with the availability of easily accessible informatics technologies, patients can provide this information directly through a web application Patos.
PaTOS is a web-application based on Java 2 Enterprise Edition on the Tomcat application container and interfaced with a database schema designed and implemented with MySQL.
A simplified, patient-adapted definition of type and NCI-CTCAE grade of the 15 commonest toxicities has been inserted into the database for reporting. Moreover the patient can use a textbox to send a short message to the physicians.
Through home Web access, each patient can compile a daily report of the affecting toxicities by choosing and grading any of them from the user interface, while on the other side physicians can perform managing operations on patients’ data, as inserting or updating database information and visualize the patient toxicity by means of a graph.
Potential utilities of the system are being tested to demonstrate:
1.Accuracy, allowing patients to easily report types and grades of the experienced toxicities.
2.Flexibility, consenting patient-reporting on demand.
3.Capability to integrate and assemble with an electronic patient record and a computerized physician order-entry.
PaTOS is a joint project between the Department of Oncology, University Hospital, Udine, Italy and MITEL.
Meeting on ontological developments of ICF
The meeting “Ontological Developments of the International Classification of Functioning, Disabilities and Health (ICF)” , organized thanks to the MURINET project, is aimed at preparing future enhancements of the well-known ICF classification, developed and maintained by WHO, towards a more formal ontological entity. The meeting includes a first day, more general and centered around the relationship between biomedical classifications and ontologies, and a second day specifically devoted to discussion on ICF.
The first day is opened by acknowledged researchers in the biomedical ontology field (Stefan Schulz, Freiburg University; Samson Tu, Stanford University) and involves other researchers from the WHO Network for the Family of International Classifications and from the MURINET project.
The meeting willl be held in Venice, Italy (Centro Culturale Don Orione – Artigianelli) on 28-29 May, 2010.
Participation of researchers and PhD students whose interests cross biomedical knowledge representation is welcome, in particular to the first day. Participation is free but registration (online at www.reteclassificazioni.it , or contact Vincenzo Della Mea) is required in order to provide for logistics.
Download here the full programme.
DICOM WG26 Meeting in Florence
The next DICOM WG26 Meeting will be held in Florence, Italy, on 5th September 2009 from 830 to 14.
The meeting site is: Grand Hotel Minerva, P.zza Santa Maria Novella, 16 – Firenze (room “Veranda”). The hotel is situated near the historic city centre, very close to the Santa Maria Novella Railway station. The Florence airport, “Peretola”, can be reached in 15 minutes by car.
For those interested, the Grand Hotel Minerva is at walking distance from the ECP congress site.
Hosting is kindly provided by A.Menarini Diagnostics .
Tesi assegnate
Telepathology and digital pathology
Telepathology and digital pathology are historical and crucial activities of MITEL.
Currently, our lab is involved in a number of activities including:
OntoICF
OntoICF is a project carried out by MITEL in its collaboration with the WHO Italian Collaborating Centre for the Family of International Classifications.
Main subject of the project is the ICF classification (International Classification of Functioning, Disabilities and Health) that is being reconsidered as ontology, together with the other collaborating centres in the world, and on which an analysis is being done to explore potential hidden semantics to be explicited and represented in OWL.
MITEL is also involved in the development of the Italian Classification Portal, based on semantic wiki techniques.
Papers, presentations, posters
MIELO: patient-to-doctor communication for SCI patients
A person with mielolesion (PLM) needs healthcare support also after discharge from the rehabilitation hospital. Not all clinical problems are manageable by the General Practitioner (GP), and often PLM has difficulties in accessing specialistic services. Information and Communication Technologies became thus a tool for simplifying PLM follow-up.
Aim of the MIELO project is to develop an Healthcare Portal for PLM, aimed at providing PLMs with a connection to both his/her GP and a specialist.
MIELO is a joint project between the Spinal Unit of the Dept. of Rehabilitation Medicine of Udine, Italy and MITEL.
The Portal has been developed and tested, and has been now embedded into the functionalities of the Citizen Portal of the Region Friuli-Venezia Giulia.
PaTOS: the Active Patient in Oncology
In cancer treatment trials, physicians traditionally report patient toxicity symptoms, but with the availability of easily accessible informatics technologies, patients can provide this information directly through a web application Patos.
PaTOS is a web-application based on Java 2 Enterprise Edition on the Tomcat application container and interfaced with a database schema designed and implemented with MySQL.
A simplified, patient-adapted definition of type and NCI-CTCAE grade of the 15 commonest toxicities has been inserted into the database for reporting. Moreover the patient can use a textbox to send a short message to the physicians.
Through home Web access, each patient can compile a daily report of the affecting toxicities by choosing and grading any of them from the user interface, while on the other side physicians can perform managing operations on patients’ data, as inserting or updating database information and visualize the patient toxicity by means of a graph.
Potential utilities of the system are being tested to demonstrate:
1.Accuracy, allowing patients to easily report types and grades of the experienced toxicities.
2.Flexibility, consenting patient-reporting on demand.
3.Capability to integrate and assemble with an electronic patient record and a computerized physician order-entry.
PaTOS is a joint project between the Department of Oncology, University Hospital, Udine, Italy and MITEL.
Nuova edizione del Master INMED
Fino al 24 settembre 2008, è possibile presentare domanda di ammissione alla II edizione del Master Universitario di II livello in Informatica Medica INMED; come per la prima edizione, si tratta di un’iniziativa congiunta delle Facoltà di Medicina e Chirurgia e Scienze Matematiche Fisiche e Naturali dell’Università di Udine, in cooperazione con l’Agenzia Regionale della Sanità e INSIEL s.p.a.. Le lezioni inizieranno in autunno.
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