Rafael A Gonzalez

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• PhD Systems Engineering
• Professor (Full) at Pontifical Xavierian University

Este artículo se pregunta si hay una burbuja especulativa de inteligencia artificial generativa. Responde que sí, pero que esto es una simplificación que de poco nos sirve para tomar decisiones. Las burbujas son parte inevitable y necesaria de toda revolución tecnológica, tras su estallido se da paso a los nuevos modelos que se generan. Además, en...

Episodes of decompensation are the main cause of hospital admissions in patients with heart failure. For this reason, the use of mobile apps emerges as an excellent strategy to improve coverage, real-time monitoring, and timeliness of care. ControlVit is an electronic application for early detection of complications studied within the context of a...

A core challenge of a multidisciplinary and multi-organizational translational research program is to set up and promote collaboration between researchers, labs, and organizations. Although the literature has studied and provided guidelines for collaboration, little has been written on how to evaluate it in large research projects and in a practica...

Models of design processes provide guidance in the development of knowledge management systems (KMS). The basis for such models comes mainly from socio-technical principles which state rigid rules and procedures that the design process modelling must adhered to. However, such rigor does not account for flexibility, ad hoc design, and ongoing config...

Existing literature on the follow-up of heart failure patients with warning signs shows that it is necessary to increase patients' knowledge and of seeking help in a timely manner. This suggests an opportunity to implement strategies that integrate technology to visualize the risk of decompensation. This article studies the acceptance of Cardio Sem...

Introduction In patients with heart failure, the main cause of hospital admissions is due to episodes of decompensation, which are associated with an increase in the costs and resources needed for care; they have a negative impact on the quality of life and prognosis of the disease. Therefore, it is necessary to design, evaluate and implement alter...

Introduction In patients with heart failure, the main cause of hospital admissions is due to episodes of decompensation, which are associated with an increase in the costs and resources needed for care; they have a negative impact on the quality of life and prognosis of the disease. Therefore, it is necessary to design, evaluate and implement alter...

Introducción: Los sistemas de monitoreo remoto basados en teléfonos inteligentes para pacientes con falla cardiaca podrían ser herramientas sencillas y económicas para mejorar el seguimiento ambulatorio. Objetivo: Identificar la utilidad y aceptación de la aplicación ControlVit® en pacientes con falla cardiaca. Método: Estudio piloto observaciona...

La transformación digital es un fenómeno reciente, aunque se enmarca en lógicas de desarrollo tecnológico anteriores. De una parte, y sobre todo con el crecimiento de ciertas tecnologías digitales en los últimos años (inteligencia artificial, analítica de macrodatos, Internet de las Cosas, realidad virtual y aumentada, entre otras) se ha presentado...

This study reports the implementation of a financial inclusion app for farmers in rural Colombia. Stemming from the triple helix initiative, this study aims to make public financing instruments more readily available to farmers. Through a design science research approach, the app was collaboratively conceived, designed, implemented, and evaluated....

This case study presents the evolution of a software firm from startup into early internationalization. Building on a structuration theory, the case is framed within a conceptual model that illustrates the way skills and routines co-evolve both at the level of the founding entrepreneur (agency) and of the firm (structure). As such, this article con...

Adequate adherence to treatment is indispensable in preventing adverse consequences in heart failure patients. Such adherence can be managed through heart failure clinics and various methods of follow-up. In recent years, the use of telemonitoring has shown promising benefits in supporting clinicians' follow-up, as well as contributing to patients'...

Although social capital has been researched from many approaches and attempts have been made to measure it online, the literature lacks an operational description that would allow its measurement criteria to be established from a social network perspective. Therefore, the purpose of this paper is to identify in the literature what metrics researche...

Extracting valuable knowledge from Electronic Health Records (EHR) represents a challenging task due to the presence of both structured and unstructured data, including codified fields, images and test results. Narrative text in particular contains a variety of notes which are diverse in language and detail, as well as being full of ad hoc terminol...

Introducción: La literatura pedagógica propone los juegos serios (serious games) como herramientas efectivas para el aprendizaje; sin embargo, los estudia como si fueran productos homogéneos que se diferencian solo por la temática. Así, sus diseños no se discuten y se dejan a la discreción de cada profesor-creador. Objetivo: Establecer la relación...

Objective: Assessment of the pedagogical effect and technological acceptance of the serious game, CODIFICO, which has been designed to train medical students in ICD-10 diagnosis coding. Materials and Methods: We designed the serious game, CODIFICO, as an alternative way to teach ICD-10 diagnosis coding to undergraduate medical students. To assess...

In the domain of enterprise architecture (EA), project and team complexity can be a challenge as well as an opportunity for knowledge management (KM). EA projects generate a series of artifacts that contain knowledge directly or indirectly which can be reused or transferred from project to project. In this paper, the interest in providing a KM fram...

Coordination issues in knowledge transfer have become increasingly complex due to technological diversity. A classic view on coordination, based on structured and shared cognitive models, is being replaced by an understanding of how coordination actually happens in practice, in a context-dependent and non-routine way. This paper presents a sociomat...

This case study presents the evolution of a software firm from startup into early internationalization. Building on a structuration theory, the case is framed within a conceptual model that illustrates the way skills and routines co-evolve both at the level of the founding entrepreneur (agency) and of the firm (structure). As such, this article con...

Objetivo: La implementación de las guías de práctica clínica está limitada por la falta de herramientas que faciliten los procesos de auditoría y retroalimentación a los profesionales de salud. Este estudio evalúa la herramienta automatizada (EXEMED), diseñada para valorar la adherencia a las guías de práctica clínica a partir de la información con...

Introduction: The literature shows an optimistic landscape for the effectiveness of games in medical education. Nevertheless, games are not considered mainstream material in medical teaching. Two research questions that arise are the following: What pedagogical strategies do developers use when creating games for medical education? And what is the...

La ingeniería de requerimientos es, al igual que la disciplina que la agrupa (la ingeniería de software), una ciencia bastante joven. Solo hasta la década de 1980, se comenzó a profundizar en el papel de los requerimientos para comprender, abstraer y modelar problemas y, por supuesto, para usarlos como herramienta de gestión y control de proyectos....

Extracting valuable knowledge from Electronic Health Records (EHR) represents a challenging task due to the presence of both structured and unstructured data, including codified fields, images and test results. Narrative text in particular contains a variety of notes which are diverse in language and detail, as well as being full of ad hoc terminol...

p> Objective : Electronic medical records (EMR) typically contain both structured attributes as well as narrative text. The usefulness of EMR for research and administration is hampered by the difficulty in automatically analyzing their narrative portions. Accordingly, this paper proposes SPIRE, a strategy for prioritizing EMR, using natural langua...

In developing countries, the institutions responsible for territorial planning are faced with rapid urbanization and inherent waste of electrical and electronic equipment (WEEE) management issues. WEEE management can be considered a typical socio-technical system; consequently, understanding the dynamics of the actors involved over the course of sp...

In developing countries, the institutions responsible for territorial planning are faced with rapid urbanization and inherent waste of electrical and electronic equipment (WEEE) management issues. WEEE management can be considered a typical socio-technical system; consequently, understanding the dynamics of the actors involved over the course of sp...

Medical practice, monitoring and control guidelines enable standardization, assessment and quality improvementin healthcare. This often implies collecting and analyzing electronic medical records (EMRs)in order to calculate compliance metrics and support evidence-based decision-making. However, forthese benefits to materialize a set of challenges m...

Speech is the natural communication means, however, it is not the typical input means afforded by computers. The interaction between humans and machines would have become easier, if speech were an alternative effective input means to the keyboard and mouse. With advancement in techniques for signal processing and model building and the empowerment...

When multiple organizations are involved in a heritage management project, the coordination of actions is complex and can affect the knowledge transfer process. This paper contributes a systematic and empirical study of the dynamics of coordination activities inside a knowledge transfer process in heritage management activities. Using the informati...

In health care information systems, electronic health records are an important part of the knowledge concerning individual health histories. Extracting valuable knowledge from these records represents a challenging task because they are composed of data of different kind: images, test results, narrative texts that include both highly codified and a...

In this paper, we reflect upon the process that frames a particular MSc final capstone project which connects communities of craft women embroiderers and an interdisciplinary team of social scientists and engineers in Colombia. We argue that capstone projects framed by participatory methodologies are characterized by embodied learning processes whi...

Una de las fases del proceso de paz que se adelanta en Colombia está relacionada con la elaboración de un acuerdo. Luego de ello, se debe iniciar una etapa de construcción de paz territorial en la que participen todos los ciudadanos y las comunidades. Uno de los objetivos de esta etapa consiste en impactar positivamente los derechos de las víctimas...

The obstacles for using the extensive narrative data found within EMR in research projects, mainly due to their lack of structure and standardization, have motivated different types of works. This chapter presents projects that have demonstrated successful use of Natural Language Processing (NLP) and/or data mining techniques for the exploitation o...

This paper presents EXEMED v2, a system that allows the evaluation of clinical practice guideline indicators. EXEMED v2 includes a knowledge base that supports the definition of executable rules applied over Electronic Health Records (EHR) in order to measure its compliance with a specific clinical guideline. Taking into account that an EHR may inc...

There has been an argument for a while now that foresight lacks a coherent theoretical basis. The discussion on theory of foresight calls for a theory, but rarely expounds on what the scope of theorizing is. The discussion has been centered on philosophy and different frameworks for theorizing, but the scope and form of theorizing have not been exp...

This paper presents EXEMED v2, a system that allows the evaluation of clinical practice guideline indicators. EXEMED v2 includes a knowledge base that supports the definition of executable rules applied over Electronic Health Records (EHR) in order to measure its compliance with a specific clinical guideline. Taking into account that an EHR may inc...

In the healthcare domain the analysis of Electronic Medical Records (EMR) may be classified as a Big Data problem since it has the three fundamental characteristics: Volume, Variety and Speed. A major drawback is that most of the information contained in medical records is narrative text, where natural language processing and text mining are key te...

Development of IT-based services to support decision-making in healthcare should be guided by the following considerations: rigor, relevance, user-centered participation and inclusion of the best practices for IT-based service systems. In this paper, the balance between rigor and relevance is achieved by following the design science research method...

This paper presents EXEMED v2, a system that allows the evaluation of clinical practice guideline indicators. EXEMED v2 includes a knowledge base that supports the definition of executable rules applied over Electronic Health Records (EHR) in order to measure its compliance with a specific clinical guideline. Taking into account that an EHR may inc...

In developing countries, territorial planners are confronted with rapid urbanization and its inherent solid waste management (SWM) which has increased public health risks, and generated environmental and socio-economic problems too. To analyze these issues, a University campus (as a scaled city) was studied applying the Actor-Network Theory to find...

LA VISUALIZACIÓN COMO APOYO AL PROCESO DE ATENCIÓN DE CRISIS

Rapid urbanization in developing countries turns waste management, including management of Waste Electrical and Electronic Equipment (WEEE) into an important issue for policy makers who tend do take decisions from a limited perspective. Colombia is presently implementing a WEEE management system based on the principle of Extended Producer Responsib...

This chapter presents a health decision-support system called DISEArch that allows the identification and analysis of relevant EHR for decision-making. It uses structured and non-structured data, and provides analytical as well as visualization facilities over individual or sets of EHR. DISEArch proves to be useful to empower researchers during ana...

Development of IT-based services to support decision-making in healthcare should be guided by the following considerations: rigor, relevance, user-centered participation and inclusion of the best practices for IT-based service systems. In this paper, the balance between rigor and relevance is achieved by following the design science research method...

Information systems research is focused on creating knowledge which can be applied in organizations. Design science research, which specifically aims at applying existing knowledge to solve interesting and relevant business problems, has been steadily gaining support in information systems research. However, design science research is not the only...

licenses/by-nc-nd/3.0/). Peer-review under responsibility of the Organizing Committee of CENTERIS 2014. Abstract This paper presents EXEMED, a knowledge base created for the definition of executable rules that can be applied over Electronic Health Records (EHR) in order to measure the EHR compliance with respect to a specific clinical guideline. EX...

Este artículo evalúa estrategias para integrar sistemas de información geográfica (SIG) con simuladores basados en agentes (SBA). Primero se obtienen estrategias existentes para integrar SIG con otros sistemas, estrategias que se usan para integrar SBA con otros sistemas y estrategias usadas para integrar SIG con SBA. Segundo, se establecen criteri...

Research shows that the lack of a systems-based approach leads to the failure of Hazardous Solid Waste Management (HSWM) in urban areas of developing countries. A systems-based approach entails a multi-dimensional perspective that takes into account technical, social, economic, legal, ecological, political and cultural issues. With regard to cultur...

In developing countries urban solid waste management – SWM - has been recognized as one of the main environmental problems. In Bogotá, Colombia, South America, close to 6,000 tons of solid waste are generated daily. Research has demonstrated that lack of sustainable strategies for environmental education is an important cause of failure in urban SW...

Uno de los problemas de la investigación en América Latina tiene que ver con los mecanismos de colaboración que existen entre los grupos de investigación, y más si estos son interdisciplinarios. No contar con una herramienta unificada de colaboración limita la posibilidad de tener un catálogo de capacidades de investigación que se actualice dinámic...

Information systems research and management science create knowledge which can be applied in organizations. Design science specifically aims at applying existing knowledge to solve interesting and relevant business problems and has been steadily gaining support in information systems research. However, design science is not the only design-oriented...

One of the most important inputs for medical research is the information registered in electronic medical records. This information typically contains sensitive data that must be preserved in order to be used for research or educational purposes, and protected depending on the regulations of each country and institution. In order to assure confiden...

This chapter presents the historical development of the ScienTI-Colombia platform as the central information system of Colciencias within the National Science and Technology System (sncyt). Information systems are understood from a socio-technical perspective which transcends the technological components, implying a relationship between technology,...

One of the most important inputs for medical research is the information registered in electronic medical records. This information typically contains sensitive data that must be preserved in order to be used for research or educational purposes, depending on the regulations of each country and institution. In order to assure confidentiality of dat...

This paper proposes DISEArch, a novel strategy for searching electronic health records (EHR) of patients that have a specific disease. The objective of DISEArch is to enhance research activities on disease analysis allowing researchers to describe the disease they are interested on, and providing them the EHRs that best match their description. Its...

This paper presents an architecture of a discrete-event and agent-based crisis response simulation model. In multi-agent systems as a computational organisation, agents are modelled and implemented separately from the environmental model. We follow this perspective and propose an architecture in which the crisis environment is modelled using discre...

Validation within design science research in Information Systems (DSRIS) is much debated. The relationship of validation to artifact evaluation is still not clear. This chapter aims at elucidating several components of DSRIS in relation to validation. The role of theory and theorizing are an important starting point, because there is no agreement a...

Coordinating the response of multiple public agencies to a large-scale crisis is a challenge that has been studied predominantly according to the information-processing view. In this paper, the authors extend this view with the notion of emergence giving special attention to information and communication technology (ICT). The extended framework is...

Q ue la innovación debe ser par-te estructural del desarrollo de un país es incuestionable. Que Colombia tenga oportunida-des específicas para hacerlo en o con tec-nología de información (TI, en adelante) no resulta tan obvio, aunque ciertamente las barreras para hacerlo son menores que, digamos, hacerlo en aeronáutica. Se nos ha dicho que contamos...

Coordinating the response of multiple public agencies to a large-scale crisis is a challenge that has been studied predominantly according to the information-processing view. In this paper, the authors extend this view with the notion of emergence giving special attention to information and communication technology (ICT). The extended framework is...

Purpose The purpose of this paper is to present the development of a multi‐agent system (MAS) used to simulate a crisis response organization. Design/methodology/approach Following an agent‐based approach, the model is developed using the GAIA methodology and implemented in the Java Agent Development framework. Findings The GAIA methodology can b...

Design science (DS) is increasingly a popular approach for research with a problem-solving perspective. The literature on DS has exploded in the past few years creating a lively discussion emphasizing the balance between rigor and relevance in research, particularly within the information systems field. However, there is still inconsistency with re...

In many crisis response-organizations it is hard to implement new technologies. Even if implementation is successful there is no guarantee that such systems will be accepted and used sustainably. Implementation of ICT systems across crisis-response organizations is virtually impossible. Implementation of ICT-systems in such settings is commonly ach...

Simulation is a way to deal with the lack of data and difficulty in designing controlled experiments in the field of crisis response. This paper presents the analysis and design of a simulation model used to evaluate different coordination mechanisms for a crisis response organization. Such organizations are often multidisciplinary, short-lived and...

This paper presents a crisis response simulation model architecture combining a discrete-event simulation (DES) environment for a crisis scenario with an agent-based model of the response organization. In multi-agent systems (MAS) as a computational organization, agents are modeled and implemented separately from the environmental model. We follow...

This paper presents a crisis response simulation model architecture combining a discrete-event simulation (DES) environment for a crisis scenario with an agent-based model of the response organization. In multi-agent systems (MAS) as a computational organization, agents are modeled and implemented separately from the environmental model. We follow...

Responding to large-scale crises requires coordination within and between multiple relief agencies. Such coordination depends on access to the right information at the right time, along with other information quality dimensions, such as completeness and consistency. Multiple evaluation reports of crisis response conclude that the coordination of ag...

Coordinating the response of multiple agencies during a large-scale crises is a challenge. Using the information-processing view of coordination, a case study is presented in which dependencies, coordination mechanisms, coordination approaches, and supporting information and communication technologies (ICTs) are explored in crisis response exercise...

In this chapter, information management problems and some of the computer-based solutions offered to deal with them are presented. The claim is that exploring the information problem as a three-fold issue, composed of heterogeneity, overload, and dynamics, will contribute to an improved understanding of information management problems. On the other...

Global information retrieval and anywhere, anytime information access has stimulated a need to design and model the personalized information search in a flexible and agile way that can use the specific personalization techniques, algorithms, and available technology infrastructure to satisfy high-level functional requirements for personalization. P...

Software development has been coupled with time and cost problems through history. This has motivated the search for flexible, trustworthy and time and cost-efficient development. In order to achieve this, software reuse appears fundamental and component-based development, the way towards reuse. This paper discusses the present state of component-b...

Software development has been coupled with time and cost problems through history. This has motivated the search for flexible, trustworthy and time and cost-efficient development. In order to achieve this, software reuse appears fundamental and component-based development, the way towards reuse. This paper discusses the present state of component-b...

This paper discusses the use of standardized bibliographic metadata sets for the retrieval of software components. Their proven success, and the assumption that software components are a sort of dynamic document, leads to the assumption that it could be effective to adopt bibliographic metadata element sets for resource discovery of software compon...

Este artículo presenta el resultado de una investigación de la construcción de un modelo genérico de Balanced Scorecard. El principal objetivo del modelo es fomentar el aprendizaje organizacional de las organizaciones que lo adopten. Dicho modelo fue construido a partir de unos indicadores definidos correctamente y utilizando la metodología y teorí...

Crisis response efforts often require coordinating a previously unknown adhocracy of agencies under time pressure. While current technologies that support coordination are successful for well-defined static process descriptions, they may fall short in the face of more complex and unpredictable scenarios, such as a crisis or emergency. Using design...