Projects

CARELIS - A data reconciliation system for the cancer registry of Lower-Saxony (1994-1999)

CARELIS stands for "Carlos Record Linkage System". This software, which has been in use in Lower-Saxony's cancer registry for more than half a decade now, implements a reconciliation system for managing the registry's medical data. The goal of the software system is to perform a matching process between new disease reports and existing disease reports in the registry's database in order to identify multiple disease reports from a single patient or a single tumor. Having identified such multiple reports, the corresponding information can adequately be added to the registry's database. [More]

MEDAS - A data auditing system for data quality management (1999/2000)

MEDAS ("Metadata-based Data Auditing System") is a software which can be used within the scope of a data quality enhancement process. The system implements a data auditing technique that allows to check large amounts of data for regularities and deviations from these regularities. That way, the software is able to point out corrigible errors and interesting phenomena in the underlying data. [More]

TS Model 4.0 - A statistic tool for calculating transit times (2000/2001)

TS Model is part of the so-called Trainspotter Suite from the Canadian company Radss Technologies. By means of this software it is possible to track movements of rail cars on the North American railway network and to plan and optimize future movements of these rail cars. In the scope of the Trainspotter Suite software package, it is the objective of TS Model to calculate a statistics based on observed departure and arrival times, through which it is finally possible to calculate the estimated time of arrival of a rail car at a particular destination. [More]

Developing software and providing training courses in the scope of DICOM (since 2001)

DICOM ("Digital Imaging and Communications in Medicine") has been the relevant standard for medical image communication since 1993. Aside from data structures for medical images and related data, DICOM also defines network oriented services, e. g. for the transmission of images or for querying an image archive (PACS) and formats for storage media exchange. Many aspects of the DICOM standard have been implemented in the open source DICOM toolkit DCMTK, which has been developed by the OFFIS computer science institute in Oldenburg and which has followed the developments of DICOM since 1993. [More]

GO-Kard - A documentation system for cardiology (since 2002)

GO-Kard ("Graphisches Oldenburger Informationssystem für die invasive Kardiologie") is a cardiological information and communication system which has continuously been developed in close cooperation between the OFFIS computer science institute and the Oldenburg Clinic since the beginning of the 1990s. The system implements many aspects from the heart surgery and cardiology domain and predominantly serves as a documentation tool for therapeutical and diagnostic interventions. Aside from an automated preparation of medical letters and reports, the software also allows to capture and archive multimedia-based data. [More]

Developing software in the scope of intensive care units (2003-2005)

In close cooperation between the OFFIS computer science institute, the heart surgery department of the Oldenburg Clinic and Maquet Cardiopulmonary AG, software tools were being developed that help intensive care unit personnel in their daily work. The emphasis of the project was on computer-aided recording, management and presentation of medical information and the creation of relevant documents, as e.g. initial prescription sheets. [More]

Designing and implementing websites (since 2003)

Since 2003, three projects have been finished which were concerned with the design and the implementation of large, multilingual websites. The objective of the first project was to re-design and implement a website for the DICOM team within the OFFIS computer science institute, the second project dealt with the development of my private website (which you are currently visiting), the third project's intention was to develop a website that provides information about my parents' holiday apartments. [More]

M3IS - A mobile multimedia-based medical information system (2005)

In the M3IS ("Mobiles multimediales medizinisches Informationssystem") project, an integrated system for the exchange of multimedia-based medical information within the scope of the medical treatment of a patient is being developed. The central aspect of the project is a document/communication server which acts as a mediator between the different information systems in all participating departments. In detail, medical documents can (manually or automatically) be archived on the server and they can - with the necessary help of common web browsers - be retrieved from the server from all access points within a hospital. [Mehr]