The benefits of using Sentinel WebDashboard in medicine: IT solution for monitoring and treatment of patient with liver cirrhosis

Abstract The global assessment of the evolution of a disease in a certain geographical area or a specific domain is useful in the medical research for the preparation of practice guidelines/protocols used in the hospitals. Cirrhosis is one of the most common disorders seen today, occupying a significant place in the gastrointestinal pathology. The disease is the final stage of various affections in terms of etiology and morphology. The most frequent subjects treated on this topic are those related to the etiopathology and early diagnosis. Given the current interest in this matter and considering that UGS (upper gastrointestinal bleeding) in liver cirrhosis is a common complication and potentially fatal, the medical research found some very useful conducting retrospective studies in this area. The purpose of our study was to create an IT system implemented with Sentinel WebDashboard, which could increase the medical performances in diagnosis, monitoring and treatment of a disease. We tested our solution on a medical data set containing information about the patients with liver cirrhosis. The solution facilitates the access of the physicians to the databases containing complete information about the patients, offers the possibility to monitor the evaluation of their health and also aids physicians in optimizing the medical procedures and improve the diagnostic methods. It also offers the advantages of a web application: it does not require the installation on the client side, being accessible anytime, anywhere via a web browser, laptop, Smartphone or tablet. Abbreviations UGS = upper gastrointestinal bleeding; UGE = upper gastrointestinal endoscopy; SOA = Service Oriented Architecture