Do the right thing - do the thing right; Some contributions of Logic, AI and software engineering to quality and safety of patient care
John Fox and Matt South (Oxford)
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18th October 2011 (week 2, Michaelmas Term 2011) |
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11:30 |
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147 |
Abstract
COSSAC is an interdisciplinary collaboration between Oxford, UCL, Edinburgh and several clinical partners carrying out research in formal computer science and AI as a foundation for novel applications in healthcare and other safety-critical domains (www.cossac.org). COSSAC members have developed a number of practical technologies, drawing on CS and AI techniques, from declarative program specification and formal knowledge representation to cognitive agents and spoken language interfaces for clinical services. An increasing number of applications are in routine use. A simple type of application is the “symptom checker” service recently launched by NHS Direct; a more complex example is the CREDO decision support tool for supporting multidisciplinary care of patients with breast cancer (developed with the Royal Free Hospital in London and now being deployed at the Churchill Cancer Centre). Despite these promising results the implementation of such applications frequently leads to engineering compromises, or ad hoc solutions where the CS research base is insufficient to guide design decisions. We are currently trying to roll out a new generation of tools to support the openclinical project (www.openclinical.net) whose goal is to provide an open repository of clinical applications for wide dissemination and reuse. The project is a source of many research issues and software engineering challenges which we look forward to discussing with our Oxford colleagues.
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