Publications by authors named "E Finkeissen"

For the exchange between science and practice, a language that is as precise as possible is also required in dentisty. This language is necessarily based on our ideas about the relationships in reality. Since standardization is unavoidable, various methods have been developed in informatics as to how these models can be represented and made more precise.

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Background: Communication media commonly used in medicine today no longer meet the needs brought on by the present knowledge explosion. The Heidelberg medrapid project has been developed to quickly communicate high-quality clinical knowledge to physicians.

Methods: In this paper, medrapid is introduced as an online clinical knowledge resource, and the methods used by the 'knowledge entry' function for the minimalist representation of clinical knowledge in the knowledge base are discussed.

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In a project concerning the German newborn screening examination "U2" we developed a software system called DoT-U2 for concurrent documentation at the point of care. Physicians can enter findings in(to) a tree structured protocol with management of logical dependencies. Additionally, all findings except free text annotations can be entered by speech recognition.

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Objective: currently, it takes at least 6 months for researchers to communicate their results. This delay is caused (a) by partial lacks of machine support for both representation as well as communication and (b) by media breaks during the communication process.

Methods: To make an integrated communication between researchers and practitioners possible, a general structure for medical content representation has been set up.

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The objective of the AIDA project (Artificial Intelligent Dental Agents, http://aida.uni-hd.de) is the analysis of dental decision-making, the design of a computer-based decision support system, as well as the testing of the decision structure in interactions with dental experts, practicing dentists, and patients.

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