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Telematics Applications Project HC4017 – HC-REMA project aimed at providing different types of health care professionals with a set of tools for building decision support systems for resource management optimisation and quality control of health care policies in areas such as instrumentation purchase, therapy assessment, and trial and screening scheduling.
The HC-REMA tools showed these characteristics:
- They supported “dynamic” economic evaluation, i.e., decision-support models were able to “learn and adapt themselves” through the appropriate links to distributed databases.
- They supported a model-based approach to the development of knowledge-intensive applications for economic evaluation: generic problem-solving models and ontologies for economic evaluation were operationalised by instantiating them with domain-specific knowledge and, if needed, interfaced with additional, application-specific software components.
- They supported the development of multi-agent applications, enabling different classes of health professionals to share knowledge and produce economic evaluations collaboratively.
Keywords: World-Wide Web, Economic Evaluation, Knowledge-based Systems, Problem-solving methods, Ontologies, Decision Support.
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Enrico Motta
