Ensuring the right treatment for the right patient in complex patient care situations, InferMed’s Arezzo technology supports expert clinical judgement in a number of ways:
Mimics human decision making
Mimics the way human experts make decisions by:- Providing options for each decision,
- Producing clearly defined arguments for and against all options, including those options that are not recommended,
- Personalising the arguments according to the specific circumstances in which a decision is being made.
Handles clinical uncertainty in decision-making
Arezzo’s argumentation approach does not require probabilities or numeric weighting for decision support. This information is frequently not available, thereby limiting systems that use Bayesian reasoning.Supports human decision-making
Enables decisions within the context of executable guidelines and protocols.Patient specific analysis
Delivers patient-specific views of guidelines so that users only interact with the pertinent information in a guideline or protocol. Irrelevant information is kept in the background.Reminders and prompts
Provides ‘pro-active’ prompts and reminders of what needs to be done next for a given patient, and when.Ease of use
Provides simple-to-use tools for creating the knowledge base needed for guidelines, protocols and decision-making and for detecting logical inconsistencies in the knowledge base.Efficiency
Minimises time spent at the computer. Arezzo’s robust, highly efficient inference engine can rapidly process the knowledge base and stored guideline, and guidelines can be encoded so as to minimize the number of questions asked of the user.Declarative approach
Utilises a declarative approach, which means:- The knowledge and behaviour of any guideline is clearly defined, and
- Guidelines are flexible and can be adapted to the needs of various users.
