The core of CARRE functionality revolves around the concept of comorbidity, and in particular comorbidities in the case of cardiorenal syndrome. To enable the open and seamless use and reuse of these described medical risk factors, we have developed an on-line web based system for their description. Also, the resulting risk factor descriptions are available…
“Technorama” is an exhibition / competition for young scientists organized yearly at Kaunas University of Technology (KTU), Lithuania. This year, “Technorama 2015” became an international event with the aim to bring together the best young scientists in Baltic region. Main organizers and executors of “Technorama 2015” were: KTU National Innovation and Entrepreneurship Center (NIVC); Agency…
Wristwatch is the longest known wearable device to the mankind, therefore we can consider it completely unobtrusive. Possibly the device of such type could be easily accepted by patients for continuous health observables monitoring. Existing commercial smart wristwatches already try to measure some health related parameters, such as heart rate, steps, or burned calories. However,…
The CARRE system architecture was developed following a component based approach. Initially, we identified (a) public and private data aggregated, used and produced by the system; and (b) major system services. Major architectural components were then designed and described. Finally, the end user perspective was captured via a number of indicative sequence diagrams to illustrate…
The concept of patient empowerment has emerged as a new paradigm that can help improve medical outcomes while lowering costs of treatment by facilitating self-directed behavior change. Patient empowerment has gained even more popularity since the 1990’s, due to the emergent of eHealth and its focus on putting the patient in the centre of the…
The aim of the educational resource aggregator is to harvest educational resources from 3rd party repositories, present these to the medical expert for annotation and rating, and output the results of the annotation (together with resource metadata) to the CARRE public RDF repository. So far we have designed the architecture of the aggregator. This aggregator…
Analysis of CARRE use cases and project aims shows that decision support would benefit from resolving two different types of patient intention: a) intention to search information on cardiorenal disease concepts; and b) intention to travel, particularly to places where environmental and dietary conditions may require adjustment to patients’ diet and physical activity. Thus the…
Last week CARRE consortium held its third meeting in Vilnius, Lithuania. The meeting was held right in the middle of the medieval town while we had the opportunity to visit the impressive premises of Vilnius University Hospital. Two full days were devoted in discussing thoroughly the project progress and plans ahead. The major goal of…
The CARRE conceptual model of the risk factor led to the development of a novel ontology for risk factors in medicine. The ontology was developed using natural language tools for knowledge representation. In particular, we used the OWL Simplified Englishontology editor developed during the SWAT project, and presented an automatically generated textual glossary version of…
Based on the contractual commitments, on the medical domain analysis and use cases as presented in Deliverable D.2.1, we have identified the following major functional CARRE components: Patient application: This application integrates patient related personal information and forwards this to the CARRE personal repository. The main types of information this application will integrate are the…
