Workflow analysis and evidence-based medicine: towards integration of knowledge-based functions in hospital information systems.
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.
Mueller
M L
ML
Department of Medical Informatics and Biomathematics, University of Muenster, Germany.
Ganslandt
T
T
Frankewitsch
T
T
Krieglstein
C F
CF
Senninger
N
N
Prokosch
H U
HU
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