iMedication Project Kick-Off Meeting, Salzburg
Today, the kickoff-meeting of the two-year research project iMedication sponsored by the Austrian Research Promotion Agency (FFG - Österreichische Forschungsförderungsgesellschaft) as part of FIT-IT “Semantic Systems” took place in Salzburg, Austria. The project aims at establishing “A rule-based expert network for intelligent medication” and includes the Salzburg Research Forschungsgesellschaft mbH, the Gemeinnützige Salzburger Landeskliniken Betriebsgesellschaft mbH, the Paracelsus Medizinische Privatuniversität - Institut für Allgemein-, Familien- und Präventivmedizin, the Landesapotheke am St. Johanns Spital, and Medexter Healthcare as partners. Medexter will provide its know-how in the development of medical expert and clinical decision support systems. In addition, Medexter’s suite of Arden Syntax rule engine software will be used as a critical part of the project’s pilot implementation.