TiEE - The Telemedical ILOG Event Engine: Optimizing Information Supply in Telemedicine

Ongoing problems in healthcare supply make it imperative to establish telemedicine as a feasible concept to ensure the quality of medical treatments and reduce costs. With TiEE, the Telemedical ILOG Event Engine, Fraunhofer ISST fosters the research to process streams of vital signs in telemedical scenarios using Complex Event Processing (CEP) in an Information Logistics (ILOG) manner. ILOG means to reduce the amount of information by preprocessing existing data and to route high-grade decision at the right time to the right person. As basic building blocks we developed the concepts of telemedical events (TE), Telemedical ILOG Listener (TIL) and TIL-Profiles on top of the event processing engine Esper [20–23]. TiEE analyzes the incoming patient specific streams of telemedical events and tries to detect relevant trend patterns. In a second step these got aggregated to higher level decisions.

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