Use of open standards to implement health maintenance guidelines in a clinical workstation.
We are developing a clinical workstation which integrates access to health maintenance guidelines with access to a computer-based medical record. In order to enhance the portability of such a system, we emphasize the use of open standards which can be used in diverse clinical environments. We discuss the use of relational database and expert system technology to provide both patient-specific and patient-independent access to clinical guidelines. We use the Arden Syntax as the format for a textual library which facilitates the storage of structured medical knowledge.
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Laboratory of Computer Science, Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston 02114, USA.
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D001185:Artificial Intelligence; D003626:Data Display; D003658:Decision Making, Computer-Assisted; D003661:Decision Support Techniques; D005103:Expert Systems; D017408:Guidelines as Topic; D006801:Humans; D007256:Information Systems; D016347:Medical Records Systems, Computerized; D011381:Programming Languages; D012984:Software; D018511:Systems Integration