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prepare an information leaflet the traveler can take to his general practitioner to
discuss the planned journey. The leaflet will contain all the information needed
to be prepared and provide detailed information if they are required. In the event
that docQuery cannot answer the traveler's question, the request will be sent
to experts who will answer it. Further on, those information will not only be
provided to the user, it will also be included in the docQuery case base so it will
be available for future requests.
The information contained in docQuery will be processed using several meth-
ods from the field of artificial intelligence, especially CBR. Both existing knowl-
edge about countries, diseases, prevention, etc. and experiences of travelers and
physicians will be integrated and aid in further advancing docQuery's knowledge
base. docQuery will provide information for travel medicine prevention work and
can be used by:
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Physicians, who are advising their patients
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Physicians, who provide their knowledge
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Travelers who plan a journey and look for information about their destination
Because of docQuery's individual query processing and information leaflet
assembling, the system is able to adapt to different target audiences.
2.2 Travel Medicine
Travel medicine is an interdisciplinary medical field that covers many medical
areas and combines them with further information about the destination, the
activities planned and additional conditions which also have to be considered
when giving medical advise to a traveler. Travel medicine starts when a person
moves from one place to another by any mode of transportation and stops after
returning home without diseases or infections. In case a traveler gets sick after a
journey a travel medicine consultation might also be required. A typical travel
medical application could be a German family who wants to spend their Easter
holidays diving in Alor to dive and afterward they will travel around Bali by
car. In case a traveler gets sick after a journey a travel medicine consultation
might also be required. First of all we will focus on prevention work, followed by
information provision during a journey and information for diseased returnees.
Since there are currently no sources on medical information on the World Wide
Web that are authorized by physicians and/or experts, we aim at filling this gap
by providing trustworthy travel medical information for everybody.
mediScon
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is a team of certified doctors of medicine from European countries
with a strong background in tourism related medicine, e.g. tropical medicine,
and will support docQuery by providing travel medical information and assist-
ing the modeling of the information. It is self-supporting and independent, and
all information is scientifically proven and free of advertising. docQuery will pro-
vide all the information existing on mediScon and its sub domains. Hence the
community can be used to provide new information and give feedback on given
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