Session:

Mini-Symposia: Computational Medicine Building and Applying Intelligent Systems in Health
Tuesday, March 02, 2004, 10.50 – 11.10

Session Chair:

Peter Kokol

Paper Title:

Lessons Learned from Development of Decision-Support Systems

Author(s):

L. Lhotska, Department of Cybernetics, Czech Technical University in Prague, Czech Republic

Abstract:

The aim of the paper is to point to the most important aspects that must be considered before and during development of a decision-support system, especially in such a dynamically developing area as medicine. We have to consider that medical doctors concentrate more on patient’s diagnosis and treatment than on consulting a computer. So introducing any computer-based system to their work must not be done using force so that the doctors do not have the feeling they are manipulated and pressed to use it. Problems, such as motivation of researchers and users, steps in design and development, human-computer interaction, problem domain data and knowledge, reasons of failures, are briefly discussed.