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
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