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Methods Inf Med 2006; 45(05): 523-527
DOI: 10.1055/s-0038-1634113
Original Article
Schattauer GmbH

Characterizing Decision Support Telemedicine Systems

B. Nannings
1   Department of Medical Informatics, Academic Medical Center – University of Amsterdam, The Netherlands
,
A. Abu-Hanna
1   Department of Medical Informatics, Academic Medical Center – University of Amsterdam, The Netherlands
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Publication History

Received: 01 September 2004

accepted: 09 August 2005

Publication Date:
07 February 2018 (online)

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Summary

Objectives: Decision Support Telemedicine Systems (DSTS) are at the intersection of two disciplines: telemedicine and clinical decision support systems (CDSS). The objective of this paper is to provide a set of characterizing properties for DSTSs. This characterizing property set (CPS) can be used for typing, classifying and clustering DSTSs.

Methods: We performed a systematic keyword-based literature search to identify candidate-characterizing properties. We selected a subset of candidates and refined them by assessing their potential in order to obtain the CPS.

Results: The CPS consists of 14 properties, which can be used for the uniform description and typing of applications of DSTSs. The properties are grouped in three categories that we refer to as the problem dimension, process dimension, and system dimension. We provide CPS instantiations for three prototypical applications.

Conclusions: The CPS includes important properties for typing DSTSs, focusing on aspects of communication for the telemedicine part and on aspects of decisionmaking for the CDSS part. The CPS provides users with tools for uniformly describing DSTSs.

Keywords

System characterization - typing - telemedicine - clinical decision support systems - review
 

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