[rules-users] Case study involving use of Drools in commercial SaaS healthcare application

[Nathan Bell]

In some previous posts to the rules-users mailing list Mark Proctor has
asked for real world examples:

 

>>We often get complaints about not enough real world examples in
Drools. 

>>We have a large community now, so surely a few of you must be able to
write up examples based on your work? So please, please, please, please
take the >>time to help us here.

>>Thanks

>>Mark

 

>>If you are doing anything interesting with drools and jbpm (was drools

>>flow) why not submit a paper on them at the Building Business
Capability event.

>>http://www.buildingbusinesscapability.com/

>>Mark

 

I will be  presenting a case study entitled "Speed Saves Lives:
Leveraging a massively parallel expert system for patient surveillance"
about the use of Drools and GigaSpaces at the 2011 Business Rules Forum
Conference October 30 - November 3. 

 

Abstract:

Pharmacy OneSource is a SaaS provider of applications for hospital
pharmacy and infection prevention professionals. This case study will
discuss the steps taken to develop a next-generation patient
surveillance platform that allows clinicians to accurately detect risk
factors, and perform interventions. The platform leverages the
GigaSpaces implementation of Tuple-space and the Drools rule engine to
create a massively parallel expert system. This architecture allows for
customizable handling of millions of HL7 messages per day, evaluation of
thousands of clinician created business rules, and reasoning over
hundreds of thousands of patient data facts to provide near-real-time
surveillance. 

  

The presentation will attempt to cover challenges, design decisions, and
technology choices, ROI for the project and the platform, both
internally and externally, as well as lessons learned from adopting
business rules in the development process.

 

Thank You,

 

Nathan Bell

Software Architect

Pharmacy OneSource, Inc.

http://www.pharmacyonesource.com

 

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