Category: Industry Contacts

Master Thesis defense by Maarten Kooijman on GameBus

On Monday, February 15th, 2016, Maarten Kooijman will defend his master thesis entitled “The potential of a mobile health rewarding app (GameBus) for people with  Intellectual disabilities”.  Everyone is cordially invited to join to learn, ask questions and give feedback.

Where: TU/e, Paviljoen building, room K10

When: 13:00-14:00

Stakeholders:

  • Supervisors TU/e: Dr. P.M.E. (Pieter) Van Gorp, Prof. Dr. J.H.D.M (Joyce) Westerink
  • Supervisors Lunet Zorg (the home care organization at which the practical work was performed): P. (Patrick) Leijte, R. (Ruud) Kavelaars, H.J. (Henk) van Heffen

Subject headings: HEALTH CARE; E-HEALTH; M-HEALTH, GAMIFICATION, INTELLECTUAL DISABILLITIES

Abstract: This research describes the results of a six-month graduation project within the GameBus project. GameBus is a novel app, developed within a multinationality collaboration. The app engages families and friends to stay active physically, cognitively and socially via an enjoyable personalized gaming experience. GameBus connects children, colleagues, the elderly and other family members to join physical, cognitive and social challenges, and it is unique because it crosses the boundaries of existing health apps. The app was not designed explicitly for people with intellectual disabilities. However, some issues (e.g., social isolation, insufficient physical exercise, etc.) play a role in the care for people with intellectual disabilities, as they do in care for the elderly. Therefore, it is worthwhile to investigate if health-rewarding apps like GameBus can play a role within healthcare organizations for people with intellectual disabilities. Via this master thesis project, it has been examined which clients are eligible for GameBus and how the app might be used in the future. The findings and experiences of clients and client supervisors with the application of GameBus are presented. Three promising use cases were found in which GameBus can play a role. GameBus is a valuable way to motivate and stimulate clients to perform physical, social, cognitive and other (e.g., domestic) activities.

Master Thesis project of Tim Kleinloog featured in ChipSoft’s magazine “Mediair”

From http://magazine.chipsoft.nl/mediair-oktober-2015: tim-chipsoft

Professor Uzay Kaymak van de TU Eindhoven leidt het team dat onderzoek doet naar de toepassing van dataonderzoek in de zorg. Gertruud Krekels zorgt samen met haar collega Milan Tjioe voor de zorginhoudelijke input, het team bestaat daarnaast uit een groep onderzoekers van de universiteit. Een belangrijke rol is weggelegd voor Tim Kleinloog, die bij ChipSoft op dit onderwerp afstudeert.


Tim (24) studeert Technische Bedrijfskunde aan de TU Eindhoven en volgt de master ‘Innovation Management’. De titel van zijn onderzoek is ‘A data driven approach to evaluate guidelines for non-melanoma skin cancers (NMSKs)’. “Ik ontwikkel en test de manier waarop Getruud Krekels en Milan Tjioe informatie uit HiX halen om te evalueren hoe de klinische richtlijnen worden gevolgd. Een mooi project, want het is een ideale combinatie tussen ICT, zorg, wetenschappelijk onderzoek, analyseren en programmeren. Heel boeiend om er op deze manier aan bij te dragen dat HiX zorgverleners nóg beter kan ondersteunen.”

IS-HEART presentation June 5th: Dynamic Clinical Checklist Support Systems

Also see the online agenda item for this session.

Speakers: Lonneke Vermeulen (TU/e – IS) and Ashley De Bie Dekker (Catharina Ziekenhuis Eindhoven)
Title: The first pilot study of DCCSS Tracebook, from idea to results

Abstract: Atul Gawandas’ Checklist Manifesto made the medical world realize the high potential of clinical safety checklists in reducing medical errors and improving patient safety. As the current computerized checklist support systems were too static, the Brainbridge II program (a collaboration between the Eindhoven University of Technology, Zhejiang University, Philips Research and Catharina Hospital Eindhoven) developed a system that can individualize checklists based on information from the patient’s medical record while also considering the context of the clinical workflows. By the end of last year (2014) the first pilot study of the Dynamic Clinical Checklist Support System (DCCSS) Tracebook took place in the hospital. In this presentation we will guide you from the beginning of this project to the results of the first pilot study.

After a short introduction of the Tracebook system, we will describe how we developed these dynamic checklists, which research design we followed and how the pilot study was set up. We will conclude with the promising results from the study and afterwards there is time for discussion.

Workshop on Interventional Radiology

Together with Philips, the School of Industrial Engineering is having a workshop on Interventional Radiology.  Throughout the morning of May 12th, 2015, have three presentations by Philips and three by TU/e participants from the Information Systems group as well as from the Human Performance Management group.  Also, we have a demo of the TraceBook platform, which was recently developed in collaboration with Philips research, Catharina Hospital and Zhejiang University.

Master Thesis Defense Sven Bastianen: Towards an architecture for the support of integrated Personal Health Records

Pieter Van Gorp is proud to announce the very successful completion of the master thesis project of Sven Bastianen.  Sven has worked closely with SAP NL and for the final presentation the large number of attendees confirmed that he tackled a very relevant problem.

Abstract

In the past decade Care Delivery Organizations (CDOs) have widely adopted Electronic Medical Record (EMR) systems for storing patient records digitally. As information technology is developing and healthcare is becoming more patient-centered, we notice the development of Personal Health Record (PHR) systems, which enable individuals to store their health-related information in a digital, online fashion. Together with the upcoming trend of Wearable Health Monitoring Systems (WHMSs), which ideally store their information in a PHR system, it is expected that individuals have a valuable collection of health information that can support the healthcare services that they receive.

In this research we investigate the technical challenges and barriers for integrating EMR systems and PHR systems and how these can be resolved in order to come to a more holistic approach in the way health information is used. We do this by analyzing currently existing PHR systems and investigating the current health information infrastructure in The Netherlands, while having a strong focus on interoperability standards, e.g. HL7 Fast Healthcare Interoperability Resources (FHIR). In order to also cover challenges that arise from a practical sense, we have built a prototype of an integrated PHR by setting up an interoperability scenario between the EMR system i.s.h.med of Cerner, part of SAP for Healthcare, and the PHR system HealthVault, developed by Microsoft. Subsequently we present an integration design for setting up an integrated PHR. The research is concluded with an architecture that implements the integration design into the current Dutch health information exchange infrastructure AORTA.

Thesis Text

Available from the TU/e library and from here. Thanks to SAP for not requiring any form of confidentiality.

IS-HEART session: presentation by Ivo Canjels (Philips)

Also see the agenda item in our online calendar.

Ivo Canjels is Product architect at Philips Medical Systems. He has had previous positions at IBM and Sagantec.  In his talk, Ivo will describe the Philips Healthsuite Digital Platform with a focus on Interventional X-Ray technologies.  In a preparation meeting, some opportunities for collaboration were already identified (e.g., on TraceBook but also on mining large repositories of data from Philips devices.) The purpose of this session is to identify the top collaboration opportunities and make concrete agreements afterwards.

IS-HEART sessions are organized every first and third Friday of the month. Sometimes, extra sessions are organized or sessions are moved for example to the fourth week of the month. Such exceptions are scheduled as separate events in the IS agenda.

Preparations for GameBus are heating up!

While work on the GameBus project will officially start in January 2015, we are already making various preparations.  The most important preparation is the recruiting of two new group members.  One group member has been selected from the User System Interaction pool of PDEng trainees.  This member will focus on the end user experience as well as on the business model aspects of GameBus.  A second PDEng trainee was selected from the Software Technology pool.  This member will focus on the integration of game components on the bus.

Besides PDEng projects, we have defined two master thesis projects on GameBus.  One student will focus on GameBus business model aspects as part of a graduation in Innovation Management.  A second student will focus on GameBus backend aspects as part of a graduation in Business Information Systems.

A GameBus kick-off meeting will be organized as a side activity of the EIT ICT Labs Health and Wellbeing End-of-Year Event 2014.  In this way, we involve also our Italian partners in the preparations such that in January 2015 we can take a flying start!

Stay tuned…

IS-HEART talk on Datawarehousing by Patrick Lubbers

Title: Building a Translational DWH @ AVL

Abtract: Presentatie betreft het proces en uitdagingen die er zijn om data uit verschillende klinische informatiesystemen samen te brengen binnen 1 DWH. Waarom willen we dit? Welke methodiek passen we toe? Dieper ingaan op de uitdagingen van semantiek van data, de problematiek bij het vergelijken van data, het modelleren van data objecten, het opzetten van de technische architectuur, het opzetten van een data governance beleid (“wie mag wat zien”), wat hebben we op dit moment gerealiseerd en waar willen we in de toekomst naar toe.
When/where: Fri Oct. 3rd, Paviljoen K16

IS-HEART Presentation by Juby Joseph Ninan

Title: Integrating simulation and enactment models: a reality check

See Agenda Item

Abstract:

As organizations grow larger and the complexity of their business processes increases, it becomes important to use information systems that can use software tools to control, coordinate, execute and monitor their processes. There are different vendors that offer such business process management software and services to automate a company’s business processes, enhance their visibility and control, and provide support for continuous improvement. Business process simulation plays an important role for analyzing processes for continuous improvement. Here simulation is used to study the dynamic behavior of processes over time, thereby showing how the performance of processes or resources can be influenced by changes in the system or environment.

Business Process Simulation is usually used to support strategic decision making in companies, where the objective is to move the organization towards achieving its long term goals. Here simulation helps to understand how a particular decision affects long term behavior of the process. However, these kinds of simulation experiments are not useful to support management or operational decision making, where short term behavior of processes is to be analyzed.

For short term simulations, we can use information readily made available from the business process management system itself, without the need for additional modeling. The BPMS will have knowledge of the process structure definition, the current state of the process instances and the history records of the process execution, all of which can be used to run short- term simulation experiments. The process structure definition will contain information about the control flow and the data flow. The current state of process instances can be used to load the initial state of the simulation model, and analyzing history records may give us simulation relevant properties such as arrival rate of instances, execution time of activities, etc.

This thesis is an attempt to explore the current simulation capabilities in the BPM Suite jBPM (whose core is a light weight, extensible workflow engine that allows execution of business processes using the BPMN 2.0 specification) and also investigate whether such short term simulation experiments can be supported by the tool.