On Mon, 2008-06-02 at 00:41 +0300, Seref Arikan wrote: > In case any member of this group have a candidate app for a trial like > this, I'd be delighted to get some pointers for future work.
I was going to save this for the decision support mailing list. But since you asked ... :-) The "EVIDENCE-BASED GUIDELINES AND DECISION SUPPORT SYSTEM" (EGADSS) [Yeah we thought it was a cool acronym too!] Is a project that I worked on up until we came to some obvious disagreements over implementation. But the concepts are valid and proven. See: http://egadss.sourceforge.net/ The basic concept is that an EMR sends a basic known set of information about a patient to the DSS. The DSS processes whatever clinical guidelines it knows about using the CLIPS Inference Engine http://clipsrules.sourceforge.net/ and if it finds something applicable to this patient it processes the guideline. If it needs more information (lab results etc.) it sends a request back to the EMR. The guideline analysis is completed and instructions returned to the EMR. A re-implementation of this engine using GLIF instead of Arden Syntax guideline encoding and using an openEHR EHR Extract instead of the CDA for messaging is certainly in my future plans. Cheers, Tim -- Timothy Cook, MSc Health Informatics Research & Development Services LinkedIn Profile:http://www.linkedin.com/in/timothywaynecook Skype ID == timothy.cook ************************************************************** *You may get my Public GPG key from popular keyservers or * *from this link http://timothywayne.cook.googlepages.com/home* ************************************************************** -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: signature.asc Type: application/pgp-signature Size: 189 bytes Desc: This is a digitally signed message part URL: <http://lists.openehr.org/mailman/private/openehr-technical_lists.openehr.org/attachments/20080602/63ba55d1/attachment.asc>
