===== Medication Visualization And Cohort Specification =====
 
==== Facts ====
^ Type           | master project|
^ Place          | internal      |
^ Supervisors    | Jack van Wijk |
^ Student        | Dennis Dingen    |
^ Thesis         | [[http://alexandria.tue.nl/extra1/afstversl/wsk-i/Dingen_2015.pdf|download]]|
^ start/end date |  - 14/10/2015   |


==== Abstract ====
Kempenhaeghe is an expertise centre for epileptology, sleep medicine, 
and neurocognition. Doctors gather information about epilepsy patients 
in order to respond with adequate surgery and/or medication. Per patient, all data on symptoms, treatments, events and notes are stored 
in an information system in the form of a record that is known as an 
Electronic Health Record (EHR). These records ease the monitoring of 
theprogress of the patient over time. Since the records are stored 
textually, however, both the effectiveness and efficiency of the 
process of gathering deep(er) insight leave much room for improvement. 
This holds for a doctor working with the EHR of a patient and also for 
a clinical researcher studying the EHR data of cohorts of patients.

For Kempenhaeghe we propose a modernized version of their Electronic 
Health Records system that harnesses the power of interactive 
visualization to improve the clinical interaction. On the clinical 
side, it offers a flexible method for specifying a cohort of patients 
that can also be explored using interactive visual techniques, aiding 
the researchers at Kempenhaeghe with their studies. Finally, a bridge 
is proposed and partly implemented between these two modes of operandi 
of the system, to the benefit of both.