An intelligent approach for open clinical laboratory results in Intensive Care Medicine

Abstract

The process of how laboratory tests are made and the results are delivered is very important to the decision making process in medicine. This situation is more critical in areas like Intensive Medicine, where the decision needs to be performed quickly and accurately. Typically, the results are presented in a closed format (document). This format represents a barrier for the implementation of Intelligent Decision Support Systems that make use of laboratory results to feed predictive models to help the Intensive Care professionals in such critical decisions. In order to overcome this limitation an intelligent agent based system has been implemented. Lab results are now collected, processed and used in real-time in an open format contributing to the implementation of an automatic scoring system.This work is supported by FEDER through Operational Program for Competitiveness Factors COMPETE and by national funds though FCT Fundacao para a Ciencia e Tecnologia in the scope of the project: FCOMP-01-0124-FEDER-022674. The authors would like to thank FCT (Foundation of Science and Technology, Portugal) for the financial support through the contract PTDC/EIA/72819/2006 (INTCare) and PTDC/EEI-SII/1302/2012 (INTCare II). The work of Filipe Portela was supported by the grant SFRH/BD/70156/2010 from FCT