A specification language for clinical algorithms

Author

Herrero, Carlos ; Maojo, Victor ; Sanandres, Jose Antonio ; Lopez, Andres ; Cresop, J. ; Lazaro, Pablo

Author_Institution

Sch. of Comput. Sci., Univ. Politecnica de Madrid, Spain

Volume

5

fYear

1996

fDate

31 Oct-3 Nov 1996

Firstpage

2010

Abstract

The authors have developed an authoring language for specification of algorithms, where steps of standardized management procedures can be concisely described, stored in a computer format, and disseminated over a network or the World Wide Web. Those steps can be shown in a flowchart representation, where each node can be linked to multimedia resources. The authors´ method can be used to display clinical practice guidelines, protocols, alerts or actions to follow in any clinical problem, instrumentation or established procedure. Such approach can be applied to assess clinical impact of different technologies and health policies, giving feedback to their developers

Keywords

Internet; medical information systems; multimedia computing; specification languages; World Wide Web; actions; alerts; clinical algorithms; clinical practice guidelines display; clinical problem; computer format; established procedure; feedback; flowchart representation; health policies; instrumentation; multimedia resources; protocols; specification language; standardized management procedures; Computer displays; Computer network management; Computer networks; Feedback; Flowcharts; Guidelines; Instruments; Protocols; Specification languages; Web sites;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society, 1996. Bridging Disciplines for Biomedicine. Proceedings of the 18th Annual International Conference of the IEEE

Conference_Location

Amsterdam

Print_ISBN

0-7803-3811-1

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/IEMBS.1996.646399

Filename

646399