title: One vendor's experience: preliminary development of a reminder system based on the Arden Syntax.
abstract: This article reviews the efforts of HBO & Company in the production of a first phase clinical alerting system based on the Arden Syntax. The alerting system was integrated with a clinical data repository and clinical workstation to process returning laboratory results. Investigations with expert systems resulted in a C language alerting system. GUI prototyping of an authoring environment led to a Smalltalk language authoring system. Future development is expected to broaden the system scope and address the evolution of the Arden Syntax.
authors.affiliation: HBO & Company, Amherst, MA 01002, USA.
authors.forename: R P
authors.initials: RP
authors.lastname: Spates
authors.forename: K C
authors.initials: KC
authors.lastname: Aller
mesh_terms: D001185:Artificial Intelligence; D002984:Clinical Laboratory Information Systems; D003658:Decision Making, Computer-Assisted; D003661:Decision Support Techniques; D005103:Expert Systems; D011381:Programming Languages; D017010:Reminder Systems; D018511:Systems Integration