David Mendes

David José Murteira Mendes, born in Évora (Portugal) in the 4th of July of 1966, achieved a PhD degree in Computer Science in Universidade de Évora (Portugal) in 2014. Previously he owns a MSc in Applied Artificial Intelligence also from the same University, a MBA from Universidad de Extremadura (Badajoz, Spain) a BSc in Computer Science from Universidade Nova de Lisboa (Portugal). He has developed a Software Engineer career from 1989 and developed mainly software for government organizations in particular for Hospitals intended both for management and clinical support. He acted as IT coordinator near the Mozambican Health Ministry after having designed the national Health Information System according to the governments memorandum “Health Strategic Program 2009/14”. Currently as of 2018 he is R&D Manager for DECSIS, SA where he maintains the relations with academia regarding ICT applied to Healthy Ageing Environments. He has special interest in scuba diving being an active PADI instructor and underwater photographer.

Publications

Handbook of Research on Health Systems and Organizations for an Aging Society
Handbook of Research on Health Systems and Organizations for an Aging Society
César Fonseca, Manuel José Lopes, David Mendes, Felismina Mendes, José García-Alonso. © 2020. 323 pages.
Population aging is a growing challenge worldwide. As such, new models of provision, organization, and allocation of resources, particularly in healthcare, are needed. As the...
Exploring the Role of ICTs in Healthy Aging
Exploring the Role of ICTs in Healthy Aging
David Mendes, César Fonseca, Manuel José Lopes, José García-Alonso, Juan Manuel Murillo. © 2020. 292 pages.
Technological innovation continues to be present in all areas of our lives, offering seemingly endless possibilities. As technology is increasingly implemented in healthcare...
Noninvasive Ventilation Technologies and Healthcare for Geriatric Patients
Noninvasive Ventilation Technologies and Healthcare for Geriatric Patients
César Fonseca, Manuel José Lopes, David Mendes, Jose Garcia-Alonso, Felismina Mendes. © 2020. 252 pages.
In the past, elderly patients were given artificial airway technologies, such as a tracheostomy tube, to assist with their breathing. However, thanks to the advances in medical...
Clinical Practice Ontology Automatic Learning from SOAP Reports
Clinical Practice Ontology Automatic Learning from SOAP Reports
David Mendes, Irene Pimenta Rodrigues, Carlos Fernandes Baeta. © 2017. 16 pages.
We show how we implemented an end-to-end process to automatically develop a clinical practice knowledge base acquiring from SOAP notes. With our contribution we intend to...
Clinical Practice Ontology Automatic Learning from SOAP Reports
Clinical Practice Ontology Automatic Learning from SOAP Reports
David Mendes, Irene Pimenta Rodrigues, Carlos Fernandes Baeta. © 2016. 15 pages.
We show how we implemented an end-to-end process to automatically develop a clinical practice knowledge base acquiring from SOAP notes. With our contribution we intend to...
A Semantic Web Pragmatic Approach to Develop Clinical Ontologies, and thus Semantic Interoperability, based in HL7 v2.xml Messaging
A Semantic Web Pragmatic Approach to Develop Clinical Ontologies, and thus Semantic Interoperability, based in HL7 v2.xml Messaging
David Mendes, Irene Pimenta Rodrigues. © 2013. 10 pages.
The ISO/HL7 27931:2009 standard intends to establish a global interoperability framework for healthcare applications. However, being a messaging related protocol, it lacks a...