Coordinating Advice and Actual Treatment
Thomas A. Russ
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Laboratory for Computer Science
545 Technology Square Rooom 411
Cambridge, MA 02139-1986
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Abstract
In patient management, the challenge facing a knowledge-based system
includes tracking the changes in the patient's condition over time and
responding with appropriate advice. In addition to monitoring the
patient, it is also necessary to follow the course of the actual
treatment that is being administered. Any changes to the therapy must
start with an understanding of the current state of the treatment.
Since expert systems will not have direct control of patient treatment,
they must coordinate their advice offered with the treatment that is
actually given. This paper describes how the current time, blackout
periods and agendas can solve therapy coordination problems.
In Martin D. Fox, Mary Anne F. Epstein, et al., editors,
Proceedings of the 1991 IEEE Seventeenth Annual Northeast Bioengineering
Conference, pp. 261-262, April 1991.
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