Yearbook of Medical Informatics, Table of Contents Yearb Med Inform 2009; 18(01): 37-39DOI: 10.1055/s-0038-1638635 Original Article Georg Thieme Verlag KG StuttgartClosing the Loops in Biomedical Informatics From Theory to Daily Practice Authors Author Affiliations A. Gaudinat 1 Health on the Net Foundation, SIM/HUG, Geneva, Switzerland Section Editor for the IMIA Yearbook Section on Closing the Loops in Biomedical Informatics Recommend Article Abstract Full Text PDF Download(opens in new window) Keywords KeywordsClosed-loop - clinical care - cybernetic - control theory - feedback References References 1 Westenskow DR. Closed-loop control of blood pressure, ventilation, and anesthesia delivery. Int J Clin Monit Comput 1987; 04 (02) 69-74. 2 Westenkow DR. Automating Patient Care with Closed-Loop Control. MD Comput 1986; 03 (02) 14-20. 3 McDonald CJ, Overhage JM, Tierney WM, Abernathy GR, Dexter PR. The promise of computerized feedback systems for diabetes care. Ann Intern Med 1996; Jan 1; 124 (1 Pt 2): 170-4. 4 Sailors RM, East TD. Clinical informatics: 2000 and beyond. Proc AMIA Symp 1999; 609-13. 5 Mahfouf M, Abbod MF, Linkens DA. A survey of fuzzy logic monitoring and control utilisation in medicine. Artif Intell Med 2001; Jan-Mar; 21 (13) 27-42. 6 Hazelzet JA. Can fuzzy logic make things more clear?. Crit Care. 2009; 13 (01) 116 Epub 2009 Feb 18. 7 Dominguez D, Grasso F, Miller T, Serafin R. PIPS: An Integrated Environment for Health Care Delivery and Healthy Lifestyle Support. Fourth Workshop on Agents Applied in Health Care, ECAI’06, Riva del Garda, Italy. August 2006 8 Kowalski AJ. Can we really close the loop and how soon? Accelerating the availability of an artificial pancreas: a roadmap to better diabetes outcomes. Diabetes Technol Ther 2009; 11 Suppl (Suppl. 01) S113-9. 9 Bott OJ, Hoffmann I, Bergmann J, Gusew N, Schnell O, Gómez EJ. et al. HIS modelling and simulation based cost-benefit analysis of a telemedical system for closed-loop diabetes therapy. Int J Med Inform 2007; 76 Suppl (Suppl. 03) S447-55. 10 Conley EC, Owens DR, Luzio SL, Subramanian M, Ali AS, Hardisty A. et al. Simultaneous trend analysis for evaluating outcomes in patient-centred health monitoring services. Health Care Manag Sci 2008; Jun; 11 (02) 152-66. 11 Mottaz A, Yip YL, Ruch P, Veuthey AL. Mapping proteins to disease terminologies: from UniProt to MeSH. BMC Bioinformatics 2008; Apr 29; 09 (Suppl. 05) S3. 12 Stead WW, Pater NR, Starmer JM. Closing the loop in practice to assure the desired performance. Trans Am Clin Climatol Assoc 2008; 119: 185-94 discussion 194-5.. 13 Tehrani FT, Roum JH. Intelligent decision support systems for mechanical ventilation. Artif Intell Med 2008; Nov; 44 (03) 171-82 Epub 2008 Sep 2..