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…
