title: A development environment for knowledge-based medical applications on the World-Wide Web.
abstract: The World-Wide Web (WWW) is increasingly being used as a platform to develop distributed applications, particularly in contexts, such as medical ones, where high usability and availability are required. In this paper we propose a methodology for the development of knowledge-based medical applications on the web, based on the use of an explicit domain ontology to automatically generate parts of the system. We describe a development environment, centred on the LISPWEB Common Lisp HTTP server, that supports this methodology, and we show how it facilitates the creation of complex web-based applications, by overcoming the limitations that normally affect the adequacy of the web for this purpose. Finally, we present an outline of a system for the management of diabetic patients built using the LISPWEB environment.
authors.affiliation: Laboratorio di Informatica Medica, IRCCS Policlinico S. Matteo, Pavia, Italy.
authors.forename: A
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Riva
authors.forename: R
authors.initials: R
authors.lastname: Bellazzi
authors.forename: G
authors.initials: G
authors.lastname: Lanzola
authors.forename: M
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Stefanelli
mesh_terms: D001185:Artificial Intelligence; D003922:Diabetes Mellitus, Type 1; D006801:Humans; D020407:Internet; D008490:Medical Informatics