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Information and Knowledge Management using ArcGIS ModelBuilder

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Rita Cristóvão <strong>and</strong> Pedro Gomes<br />

was built taking into account the real needs of clinical activity in hospitals, based on the interactions<br />

between the institution <strong>and</strong> the patient.<br />

SIGLIC must also possess solid information, related to the integrity of collected data. To enable this it<br />

was implemented a redundant system with different sources permanently checking data quality. This<br />

process is extremely important to guarantee that information in SIGLIC is reliable, in order that the<br />

right care is provided to a given patient, the hospital administration makes the right management<br />

decisions <strong>and</strong> the hospitals have the right funding from NHS, based on the correct information.<br />

The figure below shows SIGLIC’s diagram of data acquisition. The database of integrated knowledge<br />

is a unified <strong>and</strong> coherent set of information that is based on the needs revealed by patients,<br />

integrating the production processes while generating cost <strong>and</strong> value <strong>and</strong> which culminates in the<br />

perception of the gains in health <strong>and</strong> the value perceived by the patient.<br />

Figure 14: Diagram of data acquisition in SIGLIC<br />

The information is recorded by hospitals in SIGLIC or in their hospital information system, in<br />

accordance with a set of st<strong>and</strong>ards <strong>and</strong> integrated into the central database of SIGIC, as the<br />

illustrated in the figure 15.<br />

There is a minimal data set to integrate hospital data in the central database of SIGLIC. The hospitals<br />

are responsible for the quality of the data in their information systems. This data is initially validated<br />

by SIGLIC for detect procedural mistakes, in case it detects mistakes or non-reliable information<br />

according to the st<strong>and</strong>ards, SIGLIC provides it for the users.<br />

<strong>Information</strong> is a valuable resource to make decisions <strong>and</strong> that’s what SIGLIC is about. By <strong>using</strong> an<br />

adequate interface it collects data from hospitals information systems. This data is the knowledge<br />

base <strong>and</strong> it can be aggregated by surgical service, hospital, group of pathologies, group of surgical<br />

specialties, hospital, region <strong>and</strong> country. SIGLIC allows that this knowledge is shared with all the<br />

users of the information system in different perspectives, according to needs of each one <strong>and</strong> the part<br />

they play in the health business sector.<br />

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