Mr. Adil Alaoui Profile

Adil Alaoui

Chief Engineer at Georgetown Univ Medical Ctr

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Proceedings Article | 12 March 2010 Paper

Framework design and development of an informatics architecture for a systems biology approach to traumatic brain injury

Adil Alaoui, Dongkyu Kim, Betty Levine, Kevin Cleary, Howard Federoff, Timothy Mhyre

Proceedings Volume 7628, 76280N (2010) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.846090

KEYWORDS: Traumatic brain injury, Databases, Data modeling, Information science, Analytical research, Prototyping, Biological research, Biology, Injuries, Medical imaging

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Proceedings Article | 11 March 2010 Paper

Database schema models of integrated biomedical information in relational database system

Dongkyu Kim, Adil Alaoui, Betty Levine, Kevin Cleary

Proceedings Volume 7628, 762804 (2010) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.846369

KEYWORDS: Databases, Data modeling, Biomedical optics, Systems modeling, Integrated modeling, Data storage, Tissues, Traumatic brain injury, Analytical research, Performance modeling

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Proceedings Article | 13 March 2009 Paper

System architecture and information model for integrated access to distributed biomedical information

Dongkyu Kim, Adil Alaoui, Betty Levine, Leonidas Leondaridis, Peter Shields, Steve Byers, Kevin Cleary

Proceedings Volume 7264, 72640G (2009) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.813397

KEYWORDS: Databases, Data modeling, Biomedical optics, Data integration, Cancer, Information architecture, Integrated modeling, Information fusion, Tissues, Data storage

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Proceedings Article | 13 March 2008 Paper

ImTK: an open source multi-center information management toolkit

Adil Alaoui, Mary Lou Ingeholm, Shilpa Padh, Mihai Dorobantu, Mihir Desai, Kevin Cleary, Seong Mun

Proceedings Volume 6919, 69190T (2008) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.772992

KEYWORDS: Data modeling, Data communications, Prototyping, Medicine, Standards development, Data archive systems, Data centers, Clinical research, Information security, Software development

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Proceedings Article | 15 April 2005 Paper

Electronic data collection for clinical trials using tablet and handheld PCs

Adil Alaoui, Minh Vo, Nikunj Patel, Keith McCall, David Lindisch, Vance Watson, Kevin Cleary

Proceedings Volume 5748, (2005) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.593347

KEYWORDS: Databases, Tablets, Clinical trials, Computer security, Information security, Network security, Computing systems, Data storage, Personal digital assistants, Analytical research

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Proceedings Article | 19 May 2003 Paper

Web survey data collection and retrieval to plan teleradiology implementation

Adil Alaoui, Jeff Collmann, Jeffrey Johnson, David Lindisch, Dan Nguyen, Seong Mun

Proceedings Volume 5033, (2003) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.480678

KEYWORDS: Teleradiology, Computing systems, Imaging systems, Systems engineering, Medical imaging, Radiology, Databases, Medicine, Data compression, Internet

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This case study details the experience of system engineers of the Imaging Science and Information Systems Center, Georgetown University Medical Center (ISIS) and radiologists from the department of Radiology in the implementation of a new Teleradiology system. The Teleradiology system enables radiologists to view medical images from remote sites under those circumstances where a resident radiologist needs assistance in evaluating the images after hours and during weekends; it also enables clinicians access to patients’ medical images from different workstations within the hospital. The Implementation of the Teleradiology project was preceded by an evaluation phase to perform testing, gather users feedback using a web site and collect information that helped eliminate system bugs, complete recommendations regarding minimum hardware configuration and bandwidth and enhance system’s functions, this phase included a survey-based system assessment of computer configurations, Internet connections, problem identification, and recommendations for improvement, and a testing period with 2 radiologists and ISIS engineers; The second phase was designed to launch the system and make it available to all attending radiologists in the department. To accomplish the first phase of the project a web site was designed and ASP pages were created to enable users to securely logon and enter feedback and recommendations into an SQL database. This efficient, accurate data flow alleviated networking, software and hardware problems. Corrective recommendations were immediately forwarded to the software vendor. The vendor responded with software updates that better met the needs of the radiologists. The ISIS Center completed recommendations for minimum hardware and bandwidth requirements. This experience illustrates that the approach used in collecting the data and facilitating the teamwork between the system engineers and radiologists was instrumental in the project’s success. Major problems with the Teleradiology system were discovered and remedied early by linking the actual practice experience of the physicians to the system improvements.

Proceedings Article | 19 May 2003 Paper

Safe teleradiology: information assurance as project planning methodology

Jeff Collmann, Adil Alaoui, Dan Nguyen, David Lindisch

Proceedings Volume 5033, (2003) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.480455

KEYWORDS: Teleradiology, Information assurance, Information security, Computer security, Information technology, Computing systems, Radiology, Medicine, Telecommunications, Defense and security

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This project demonstrates use of OCTAVE, an information security risk assessment method, as an approach to the safe design and planning of a teleradiology system. By adopting this approach to project planning, we intended to provide evidence that including information security as an intrinsic component of project planning improves information assurance and that using information assurance as a planning tool produces and improves the general system management plan. Several considerations justify this approach to planning a safe teleradiology system. First, because OCTAVE was designed as a method for retrospectively assessing and proposing enhancements for the security of existing information management systems, it should function well as a guide to prospectively designing and deploying a secure information system such as teleradiology. Second, because OCTAVE provides assessment and planning tools for use primarily by interdisciplinary teams from user organizations, not consultants, it should enhance the ability of such teams at the local level to plan safe information systems. Third, from the perspective of sociological theory, OCTAVE explicitly attempts to enhance organizational conditions identified as necessary to safely manage complex technologies. Approaching information system design from the perspective of information security risk management proactively integrates health information assurance into a project’s core. This contrasts with typical approaches that perceive “security” as a secondary attribute to be “added” after designing the system and with approaches that identify information assurance only with security devices and user training. The perspective of health information assurance embraces so many dimensions of a computerized health information system’s design that one may successfully deploy a method for retrospectively assessing information security risk as a prospective planning tool. From a sociological perspective, this approach enhances the general conditions as well as establishes specific policies and procedures for reliable performance of health information assurance.

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Advanced PACS-based Imaging Informatics and Therapeutic Applications

11 February 2009 | Lake Buena Vista (Orlando Area), Florida, United States

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