Migraine Project Home Page (1991-1994)
The Migraine
project is an interdisciplinary project funded by the National Library of Medicine
at the Intelligent System Laboratory
(Computer Science Dept. University of Pittsburgh). The migraine project
is concerned with the design and development of a patient education system for
migraine patients. The project goal is to increase the overall effectiveness
of physicians' time, and thus the quality of health care, by improving the
information exchange between physicians and patients in clinical settings. In
contrast to many other knowledge-based systems, our system's design is based
on empirical data on actual information needs. We used ethnographic
techniques to observe explanations actually given in clinic settings, and to
conduct interviews with migraine sufferers and physicians.
The Migraine
system consists of three main components:
- an interactive history-taking module that collects
information from patients prior to each visit, builds a patient model, and
summarizes the patients' status for their physicians;
- an intelligent explanation module that produces an interactive information sheet containing
explanations in everyday language that are tailored to individual patients,
and responds intelligently to follow-up questions about topics covered in the
information sheet;
- an interaction manager that presents the
interactive information sheet on the screen and manages the subsequent
interaction with the patient.
Migraine Project People
Migraine Project Papers
Relevant Documents:
Knowledge base (a/t-boxes)
Relevant WWW Sites:
carenini@cs.pitt.edu