@inproceedings{d8aad53d73ee4334b08d1faf8f7f5d2e,
title = "Clinical deployment of a medical expert system to increase accruals for clinical trials: Challenges",
abstract = "Before new medical treatments become available to the public, clinicians must conduct extensive trials to determine the efficacy of the novel therapy. In order for the clinical trial to be successful, a significant number of patients with an appropriate set of medical conditions must be accrued. We have implemented a web-based expert system at the H. Lee Moffitt Cancer Center & Research Institute in the Gastrointestinal Tumor Clinic (GITC) to help physicians screen patients for phase II trials. Our system allows physicians to screen a patient for multiple trials simultaneously. Our experiments have shown that adaptation of the system into a clinical environment and the success of the system are related to the amount of time physicians are willing to spend entering data. We also found significant regulatory issues (HIPAA) that make implementation challenging.",
author = "Sergiy Fefilatyev and Ivanovskiy, {Tim V.} and Hall, {Lawrence O.} and Goldgof, {Dmitry B.} and Shibendra Pobi and Halina Greenstien and Pathak, {Amit P.} and Garrett, {Christopher R.}",
year = "2007",
doi = "10.1109/ICSMC.2007.4413719",
language = "English (US)",
isbn = "1424409918",
series = "Conference Proceedings - IEEE International Conference on Systems, Man and Cybernetics",
publisher = "Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc.",
pages = "1482--1487",
booktitle = "2007 IEEE International Conference on Systems, Man, and Cybernetics, SMC 2007",
note = "2007 IEEE International Conference on Systems, Man, and Cybernetics, SMC 2007 ; Conference date: 07-10-2007 Through 10-10-2007",
}