Development and evaluation of a mobile patient application to enhance medical-dental integration for the treatment of periodontitis and diabetes.

Introduction: People around the world are increasingly affected by multimorbidity, where conditions in different medical specialties can correlate in complex ways. This increases the relevance of multidisciplinary integrated care pathways. Modern software solutions provide vast opportunities to enhance information exchange between patients and various healthcare professionals, thereby improving patient-centered and inter-professional care.

eHealth and Clinical Documentation Systems.

eHealth is the use of modern information and communication technology (ICT) for trans-institutional healthcare purposes. Important subtopics of eHealth are health data sharing and telemedicine. Most of the clinical documentation to be shared is collected in patient records to support patient care.

Current Knowledge on Correlations Between Highly Prevalent Dental Conditions and Chronic Diseases: An Umbrella Review.

Introduction: Studies have investigated the relationships between chronic systemic and dental conditions, but it remains unclear how such knowledge can be used in clinical practice. In this article, we provide an overview of existing systematic reviews, identifying and evaluating the most frequently reported dental-chronic disease correlations and common risk factors.

Methods: We conducted a systematic review of existing systematic reviews (umbrella review) published between 1995 and 2017 and indexed in 4 databases.

Methodological approaches for investigating links between dental and chronic diseases with claims data: A scoping study.

Objectives: The purpose of this study was to provide an overview of methodological approaches to assess the relationship between dental diseases and other noncommunicable diseases on the basis of claims data.

Methods: Based on the methodological framework of Arksey and O'Malley, a scoping study was conducted. By searching electronic databases (PubMed, Web of Science, and LILACS), appropriate articles were identified.

Development of an HL7 FHIR Architecture for Implementation of a Knowledge-based Interdisciplinary EHR.

The treatment of multimorbid patients confronts physicians with special challenges. Complex disease correlations, insufficient evidence, lack of interdisciplinary guidelines, limited communication between physicians of different specialties, etc. complicate the treatment.

Approach Towards an Evidence-Oriented Knowledge and Data Acquisition for the Optimization of Interdisciplinary Care in Dentistry and General Medicine.

Associations between dental and chronic-systemic diseases were observed frequently in medical research, however the findings of this research have so far found little relevance in everyday clinical treatment. Major problems are the assessment of evidence for correlations between such diseases and how to integrate current medical knowledge into the intersectoral care of dentists and general practitioners. On the example of dental and chronic-systemic diseases, the Dent@Prevent project develops an interdisciplinary decision support system (DSS), which provides the specialists with information relevant for the treatment of such cases.