A Light-Weight Component for Adding Decision Support to Electronic Medical Records

Author

Weber-Jahnke, Jens H. ; McCallum, Glen

Author_Institution

Univ. of Victoria, Victoria

fYear

2008

fDate

7-10 Jan. 2008

Firstpage

251

Lastpage

251

Abstract

Clinical decision support systems (CDS) are seen as a significant benefit to electronic medical records (EMRs). The use of CDS systems has been shown to improve adherence to medical evidence and increase the rate of adoption of new evidence. Many open source EMRs from small vendors do not provide CDS, because of the complexity of building them. Moreover, existing CDS functions often use proprietary knowledge representation, impeding knowledge exchange and update. This paper reports on our work on encapsulating standardized CDS functionality in a re-usable component that is agnostic of any particular EMR product. The component has been integrated with a sample EMR system and evaluated with a set of preventive care guidelines.

Keywords

decision support systems; knowledge representation; medical information systems; object-oriented programming; records management; software reusability; clinical decision support systems; electronic medical records; knowledge exchange; knowledge representation; knowledge update; reusable light-weight component; Best practices; Decision making; Decision support systems; Documentation; Guidelines; Impedance; Knowledge representation; Knowledge transfer; Protocols; Publishing;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences, Proceedings of the 41st Annual

Conference_Location

Waikoloa, HI

ISSN

1530-1605

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/HICSS.2008.26

Filename

4438955