title: An intelligent information systems architecture for clinical decision support on the Internet.
abstract: This paper presents a prototype of an agent-based intelligent information systems architecture that can provide clinical decision support in a distributed, heterogeneous environment such as the Internet. After presenting the architecture, a specific transaction sequence is detailed and implemented to test the architecture. A transaction sequence is a detailed analysis of all actions by all entities to accomplish the system goal. In this case, the goal is to give decision support information access to a provider in the context of a computerized patient record. Based on the results of the prototype implementation, we argue that the system is scaleable and discuss other transactions, standards, and needed development.
authors.affiliation: Department of Information Systems, University of Maryland, UMBC, USA.
authors.forename: K
authors.initials: K
authors.lastname: Canfield
authors.forename: V
authors.initials: V
authors.lastname: Ramesh
authors.forename: S
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Quirolgico
authors.forename: M
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Silva
mesh_terms: D003195:Computer Communication Networks; D003199:Computer Systems; D003658:Decision Making, Computer-Assisted; D016347:Medical Records Systems, Computerized; D011381:Programming Languages; D018511:Systems Integration; D017432:Unified Medical Language System