Services and tools to support
knowledge dissemination, decision support and risk reduction in European healthcare regions
keywords
main objectives
Clinical decision support, clinical guidelines, computer interpretable guidelines,
patient safety, risk management, ontologies, semantic,
continuing medical education, electronic patient record
"Building knowledge driven and dynamically adaptive networked communities within European healthcare systems":
development and evaluation of tools to support access to risk management and
knowledge and decision support services.
clinical domains
Breast cancer
screening, Parkinson's disease,
ischaemic heart disease, hypertension
and diabetes
description
The main goal of the Cocoon project is to
build knowledge-driven and
dynamically adaptive networked communities within European health care
systems with the aims of reducing risk and minimising medical errors in
diagnosis and treatment.
Knowledge management activities include:
Development of tools to support publishing, organisating and 'smart' searching of medical guidelines,
papers and other relevant knowledge sources
Creation of 'virtual' clinician networks
Integration of computer-interpretable guidelines (CIGs) into electronic
medical record systems in general practice.
Cocoon tools are services are being trialled in three European regions:
Lombardia (Italy), Brussels and Epirus (Greece).
CIGs are being developed in the following clinical domains: breast cancer
screening (Brussels); diagnosis and management of Parkinson's disease
(Lombardia); ischaemic heart disease (Epirus);
hypertension and diabetes (all regions).
PROforma is the guideline representation language
selected by the project for developing
computer-interpretable guidelines.
InferMed Ltd. is providing its Arezzo guideline authoring tool and
inference engine.
Other partners working on the CIGs-related work
include:- CEFRIEL (Italy); Microsoft European Innovation Centre (Germany);
Siemens Informatica SPA (Italy); Logicom Ltd (Greece); GL2006 Europe Ltd
(UK); Millewin (Italy); IDS Scheer (International); and the European Medical
Association (International).
Cocoon
Cocoon