The CONSORTIUM

PERIKLES is carried out by a consortium that consists of one industry and two scientific partners, where each partner focuses on a specific aspect of the to-be system. The members of the consortium are:

• GECKO mbH ( www.gecko.de, consortium lead)
   
  GECKO is a Rostock (Germany)-based small to medium enterprise (SME) that develops industry-specific software solutions for its customers. The company is also actively engaged in research and development that aims at the introduction of innovative technologies to open new business areas.
   
  The contribution to PERIKLES comprises four core technologies and responsibilities:
  • BPM solution for clinical processes
  • Event-to-process transformation middleware
  • Graphical clinical user interfaces
  • Process integration
• University of Rostock ( dbis.informatik.uni-rostock.de, research partner)
   
  The database and information systems (DBIS) group (head Prof. Andreas Heuer) at the Institute of Computer Science is one of two scientific partners of the consortium. Its main contribution to the project is related to:
  • Workflow flexibility
  • Data integration with clinical information systems
• IT Science Center, Rügen (www.it-science-center.de , research partner)
   
  IT Science Center, which is an associated institute of local universities, is the other scientific partner of the consortium (project lead Prof. Peter Forbrig). Its project responsibilities are related to:
  • Process specification
  • Process simulation

Clinicians - especially surgeons, anesthetists, OR coordinators, and nurses - are the domain experts of the perioperative processes which PERIKLES aims to support. Therefore, their strong involvement and feedback is of great importance to the project and very much welcomed. To this end, research is carried out in conjunction with several operating facilities in Germany.