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Towards a Unified Data Management and Decision Support System for Health Care

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Intelligent Interactive Multimedia Systems and Services

Part of the book series: Smart Innovation, Systems and Technologies ((SIST,volume 6))

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We report on progress in development of a unified data management and decision support system, UDMDSS, for application to injury prevention in health care. Our system is based on a modular architecture which supports real-time web-base desktop and mobile data acquisition, semantic data models and queries, Bayesian statistical analysis, artificial intelligence agent-based techniques to assist in modelling and simulation, subjective logic for conditional reasoning with uncertainty, advanced reporting capabilities and other features. This research work is being conducted within a multi-disciplinary team of researchers and practitioners and has been applied to a Canadian national study on child safety in automobiles and also in the context of patient falls in a hospital.

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    Robert D. Kent, Ziad Kobti & Akshai Aggarwal

  2. Odette School of Business, University of Windsor, Windsor, Ontario, Canada, N9B 3P4

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Kent, R.D., Kobti, Z., Snowdon, A., Aggarwal, A. (2010). Towards a Unified Data Management and Decision Support System for Health Care. In: Tsihrintzis, G.A., Damiani, E., Virvou, M., Howlett, R.J., Jain, L.C. (eds) Intelligent Interactive Multimedia Systems and Services. Smart Innovation, Systems and Technologies, vol 6. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-14619-0_20

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