Title :
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
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;
Conference_Titel :
Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences, Proceedings of the 41st Annual
Conference_Location :
Waikoloa, HI
DOI :
10.1109/HICSS.2008.26