title: Workflow analysis and evidence-based medicine: towards integration of knowledge-based functions in hospital information systems.
abstract: The large extent and complexity of scientific evidence described in the concept of evidence-based medicine often overwhelms clinicians who want to apply best external evidence. Hospital Information Systems usually do not provide knowledge-based functions to support context-sensitive linking to external information sources. Knowledge-based components need specific data, which must be entered manually and should be well adapted to clinical environment to be accepted by clinicians. This paper describes a workflow-based approach to understand and visualize clinical reality as a preliminary to designing software applications, and possible starting points for further software development.
authors.affiliation: Department of Medical Informatics and Biomathematics, University of Muenster, Germany.
authors.forename: M L
authors.initials: ML
authors.lastname: Mueller
authors.forename: T
authors.initials: T
authors.lastname: Ganslandt
authors.forename: T
authors.initials: T
authors.lastname: Frankewitsch
authors.forename: C F
authors.initials: CF
authors.lastname: Krieglstein
authors.forename: N
authors.initials: N
authors.lastname: Senninger
authors.forename: H U
authors.initials: HU
authors.lastname: Prokosch
mesh_terms: D001185:Artificial Intelligence; D019317:Evidence-Based Medicine; D006751:Hospital Information Systems; D019146:Hypermedia; D017146:Models, Organizational; D012985:Software Design; D013531:Surgicenters / Q000458:organization & administration*; D018511:Systems Integration; D013647:Task Performance and Analysis; D014584:User-Computer Interface