Development of a modular IT-Framework supporting the oncological Patient Treatment in ENT Surgery

Abstract

The oncological workflows in most hospitals are supported by heterogeneous IT-systems and paper records where dif-ferent kinds of patient specific information are stored. Information, which is important for the patient treatment, clinical evaluations or quality management have to be gathered and integrated manually by the clinical personnel, thus leading to less-than-ideal processes and error-prone data handling. This paper presents a modular IT-Framework, which re-trieves information automatically from existing hospital information systems and provides an integrated platform to support the entire oncological workflow. © 2012 by Walter de Gruyter Berlin Boston.