Implementation of a Web Portal for Diabetes Patients Using Open Source Data Visualization Libraries.

To provide a better doctor-patient communication and to better involve patients into a diagnostic and treatment process we implemented a web portal for diabetes patients using open source libraries to present medical data. The medical data was "archetyped" according to the ISO 13606 standard. Visualization properties were defined using visual medical concepts (VMC) in XML format.

Implementation of a Clinical Decision Support System for Interpretation of Laboratory Tests for Patients.

The paper presents the results of the development and implementation of an expert system that automatically generates doctors' letters based on the results of laboratory tests. Medical knowledge is expressed using a first order predicate based language. The system was implemented and evaluated in the Helix laboratory service.

Exploring Barriers and Opportunities for Adoption of Web Portals in Russia. Example of a Tuberculosis Portal.

The aim was to study the opinions of tuberculosis patients and doctors and identify perceived opportunities and barriers to using a Web portal to optimize its use. The perceptions of 30 tuberculosis patients and 18 doctors (10 general practitioners and 8 TB specialists) from Tomsk, Russia were collected through semi-structured interviews. The responses were analyzed for content using principles of the grounded theory and thematic analysis, in order to gain insight into the participants' beliefs and attitudes towards adopting tuberculosis web-portal to increase the efficiency of the treatment and rehabilitation process.