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eHMIS is a Ugandan Hospital Information System (HIS), which targets the Sub-Saharan market. In its first version all forms were programmed statically and adaptations were done by code modifications. In 2014 the development of a second version of eHMIS based on Java started.
This work aims at introducing dynamic forms to this new version. While forms that are significantly important to the workflow of the application will remain static, others are replaced by forms that are dynamically designed by the user. By that, the application will become more flexible and local and situational tailoring will be possible without inducing extra costs.
In this thesis the design, implementation and testing of dynamic forms in eHMIS is discussed. The architecture is based on the questionnaire resource of FHIR®. The module enables the user to create questions and group them into sections and questionnaires. For each question the type of answer expected and other constraints can be defined. A user interface covering all functions was designed, so that no programming skills are required. In a first step dynamic forms were integrated in the application's workflow for recording symptoms, though other fields of application are possible. For testing, a usability experiment was conducted in Tororo Hospital in Eastern Uganda, using the thinking aloud method. Results were analysed and evaluated to detect usability problems and gain a general impression of user satisfaction.
Im Rahmen dieser Abschlussarbeit wird in Zusammenarbeit mit zwei Physiotherapeuten der IB Medizinischen Akademie Mannheim ein Konzept für das heimbasierte Training
in der Handtherapie erarbeitet. Das Konzept basiert auf der Thalmic Myo, einem Gestensteuerungssystem, das über den Arm gesteuert wird. Der Entwurf wird prototypisch in Verbindung mit einer Android Anwendung realisiert.
Das Myo-Armband ist mit Bewegungssensoren und Elektroden ausgestattet, womit sich Position von Hand und Arm im Raum erfassen und Bewegungen durch elektrische Signale
von Muskeln erkennen lassen. Basierend auf dieser Technologie, soll eine Möglichkeit zur
Verlaufskontrolle der Adhärenz, die Einhaltung der gemeinsam gesetzten Therapieziele, gewährleistet werden können.
Abschließend wird der Prototyp gemeinsam mit sieben Physiotherapeuten hinsichtlich
seiner Funktionalität untersucht und die Akzeptanz und das Nutzererlebnis evaluiert. Bei der Untersuchung wird das Studentenprojekt “LeapPhysio” hinzugezogen, das ähnliche Ziele verfolgt, jedoch auf einer anderen Technologie basiert. Es werden beide Technologien gegenübergestellt und auf ihre Eignung geprüft.
Every year, hundreds of thousands of patients are affected by treatment failure or adverse drug reactions, many of which could be revented by pharmacogenomic testing. To address these deficiencies in care, clinics require
automated clinical decision support through computer based systems, which provide clinicians with patient-specific ecommendations. The primary knowledge needed for clinical pharmacogneomics is currently being
developed through textual and unstructured guidelines.
In this thesis, it is evaluated whether a web service can annotate clinically relevant genetic variants with guideline information using web services and identify areas of challenge. The proposed tool displays a formal representation of pharmacogenomic guideline information through a web service and existing resources. It enables the annotation of variant call format (VCF) files with clinical guideline information from the Pharmacogenomic Knowledge Base (PharmGKB) and Clinical Pharmacogenetics Implementation Consortium (CPIC).
The applicability of the web service to nnotate clinically relevant variants with pharmacogenomics guideline information is evaluated by translating five guidelines to a web service workflow and executing the process to annotate publically available genomes. The workflow finds genetic variants covered in CPIC guidelines and influenced drugs.
The results show that the web service could be used to annotate in real time clinically relevant variants with up-to-date pharmacogenomics guideline information, although several challenges such as translating variants into star allele nomenclature and the absence of a unique haplotype nomenclature
remain before the clinical implementation of this approach and the use on other drugs.