Towards a "Just-in-Time" Distributed Decision Support System in Health Care Research

The application of semi-automated decision support systems in health care faces challenging tasks mainly in generating evidence-based recommendations in a short critical time window. Traditional data collection and survey methodology to generate evidence for the decision support systems also suffers from a slow turn-around time. This chapter reports on a multi-disciplinary project between computer and health sciences to introduce a cumulative framework encapsulating innovative distributed data collection methodology, coupled with an intelligent multi-agent, socially driven decision support system. We report on the current design and implementation aspects of this integrated system with a case study in injury prevention to verify the initial model.

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