Medical Informatics Laboratory, University of Pavia

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Medical Informatics Laboratory, University of Pavia

The Medical Informatics Laboratory is located in the Department of Computers and Systems Science of the University of Pavia, Italy.

Laboratory Overview

The Medical Informatics Laboratory has been active for more than 15 years in the fields of Artificial Intelligence in Medicine and Hospital Information Systems (HISs). There are more than 15 Professors, Researchers, Ph.D. students and undergraduate students working on different projects. The activities can be classified into two groups. The first one includes research on epistemological and computational models of medical Knowledge Based Systems (KBS), temporal reasoning, database-KBS interfaces, nonmonotonic logics, qualitative models of system dynamics, influence diagrams, and statistical analysis of biomedical data.

The second group of activities deals with the design and development of HISs. SQL-based DBMS are used to develop applications for several Hospital Units. A framework for the rapid prototyping of these applications has been developed, that provides both the developer of the apllications and the final user with a graphical interface (MS-Windows and X/Motif are the standards adopted) The client-server architecture is the most widely used in the working HISs developed so far.

The Medical Informatics Laboratory is involved into several national (MPI 40% and Progetti Finalizzati of the C.N.R.) and international (collaboration agreements with American and European institutions, NATO joint efforts, AIM) Research and Development Programmes.