Knowledge Based Quality Assurance Tools

1990 ◽  
Author(s):  
Stephan S. Yau ◽  
Gwo-Long Huang ◽  
Jinshuan Lee ◽  
Yeou-Wei Wang
Keyword(s):  
Quality Assurance ◽  
Knowledge Based

Involvement in Medical Informatics May Enable Pharmacists to Expand Their Consultation Potential and Improve the Quality of Healthcare

1992 ◽  
Vol 26 (1) ◽  
pp. 100-104 ◽  
Author(s):  
Alise E. Woodruff ◽  
C. Anthony Hunt
Keyword(s):  
Quality Assurance ◽  
Information Systems ◽  
Information Management ◽  
Medical Informatics ◽  
Quality Of Healthcare ◽  
Knowledge Based Systems ◽  
Related Services ◽  
Medical Computing ◽  
Knowledge Based

The outlook for pharmacy-related services foretells more involvement of both computers and information systems. Expert therapeutic systems and databases will enable pharmacists to expand their consultation potential through networks and improve the quality of healthcare that they provide. Therapeutic information management could be the largest pharmacy speciality of the future. As knowledge-based systems and networks become commonplace, there will be an increasing need for new components, system monitoring, and quality assurance. This is an opportunity for pharmacy to bring medical computing, as it relates to therapeutics, into the mainstream of the profession as a new discipline.

scholarly journals The Quality Whirlwind in the Higher Medical Education

2015 ◽  
Vol 5 (6Bis) ◽  
Author(s):  
Nino Chikhladze
Keyword(s):  
Higher Education ◽  
Medical Education ◽  
Quality Assurance ◽  
Social Cohesion ◽  
Research Training ◽  
Bologna Process ◽  
Research Area ◽  
Cultural Development ◽  
Knowledge Based ◽  
Higher Medical Education

Globalize World demands to realize Higher Education for making most competitive and dynamic knowledge-based economy, capable of sustainable economic growth with more and better jobs and greater social cohesion. Higher Education is an important factor in further enhancing research in underpinning Higher Education for the economic and cultural development of our societies and for social cohesion. The effort to introduce structural change and improve the quality of teaching should not detract from the effort to strengthen research and innovation. Ministers meeting in Berlin in September 2003 added an Action Line to the Bologna process entitled "European Higher Education Area and European Research Area "“ two pillars of the knowledge based society" that underlines the key role of research training in this context. Bergen Communique (2005) has chosen 3 priorities including quality assurance (internal/external quality assurance) and appealed to,, Strengthen research, innovation, emphasize the importance of research and research-training''. In London Communique (2007) is marked that,, Higher Education Institutions should continue to develop their internal system of quality assurance''. The task of Higher Medical Education everywhere is the provision of Health Care. Notwithstanding variations, there is a high degree of equivalence of structure, process, and product of medical school worldwide. Research is an integral part of Higher Medical Education: increasing the role and relevance of research to technological, social and cultural evolution and to the needs of Society.

Intelligent System to Quality Assurance in Drugs Delivery

2012 ◽  
pp. 187-202
Author(s):  
Antonio J. Jara ◽  
Mona Alsaedy ◽  
Alberto F. Alcolea ◽  
Miguel Zamora ◽  
Antonio F. Gómez-Skarmeta
Keyword(s):  
Quality Assurance ◽  
Internet Of Things ◽  
Information And Communication Technologies ◽  
Radio Frequency Identification ◽  
Intelligent System ◽  
Near Field ◽  
Vital Signs ◽  
Smart Phones ◽  
Knowledge Based ◽  
Intelligent Information

Improving quality assurance and providing effective healthcare are some of the most important aims of information and communication technologies (ICT). This chapter presents a novel solution to improve quality assurance in drugs delivery, i.e., reduce clinical errors caused by drug interaction and dose. For that purpose, we have proposed an innovative system based on Internet of things for the drugs identification. Internet of things (IoT) is one of the latest advances in ICT, providing a global connectivity and management of sensors, devices, users, and information. Our contribution is a solution to examine drug related problems based on IoT technologies, i.e. smart phones and Web, to support ubiquitous access, 6LoWPAN technology to support ubiquitous data collection of patients, sensors and hospitals, and RFID/NFC to support global identification. These technologies offer a wide range of applications in healthcare, which improves the quality of services, reduces mistakes, and even detects health anomalies from vital signs. This chapter presents how IoT technology is applied in a pharmaceutical system to examine drugs in order to detect Adverse Drug Reactions (ADRs), harmful effects of pharmaceutical excipients, allergies, complications and contraindications related with liver and renal defects, and harmful side effects during pregnancy or lactation. Thereby, the system provides an enhanced approach assisting physicians in clinical decisions and drug prescribing. The solution presented is based on NFC (Near Field Communication), RFID (Radio Frequency Identification), and barcode identification technologies, which have been integrated in common devices such as smart-phones, PDAs, and PCs. In addition, a remote knowledge-based system based ontologies and rules-engine, has been built to define an intelligent drugs checker, which we have defined as Pharmaceutical Intelligent Information System, where the drug identifies collected from the RFID/NFC tag or barcode is checked, in order to detect whether the identified drug is suitable with respect to the patient’s health record.

scholarly journals Knowledge-Based Planning as a Real Time Review Quality Assurance Feedback Tool in the TROG 1501 SPARK Trial

2018 ◽  
Vol 102 (3) ◽  
pp. e535-e536
Author(s):  
O.M. Cook ◽  
A.J. Moore ◽  
R. Kaderka ◽  
K.L. Moore ◽  
J. Martin ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Quality Assurance ◽  
Real Time ◽  
Knowledge Based ◽  
Knowledge Based Planning

scholarly journals PV-0175: Knowledge-based DVH predictions for automated individualised treatment plan quality assurance

2016 ◽  
Vol 119 ◽  
pp. S83-S84
Author(s):  
J. Tol ◽  
M. Dahele ◽  
A. Delaney ◽  
B. Slotman ◽  
W. Verbakel
Keyword(s):  
Quality Assurance ◽  
Treatment Plan ◽  
Plan Quality ◽  
Knowledge Based ◽  
Individualised Treatment
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