A framework and tools for authoring, editing, documenting, sharing, searching, navigating, and executing computer-based clinical guidelines.
With the spread of managed care and integrated delivery networks, an increased emphasis has been placed on the cost-effectiveness of clinical practices. The need has been recognized to use guidelines to support education, and to integrate them into clinical practice. A specification for guideline representation that would facilitate computer-based clinical guideline sharing has been developed by the InterMed Collaboratory. Called GLIF (GuideLine Interchange Format), this specification and its proposed extensions have been the basis for our implementation of a framework and suite of integrated software tools for guideline authoring and editing, packaging in XML, Internet distribution, navigation, eligibility determination, and automatic execution.
Greenes
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Decision Systems Group, Brigham and Women's Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, USA. greenes@harvard.edu
Boxwala
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Sloan
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Ohno-Machado
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Deibel
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D004608:Eligibility Determination; D006801:Humans; D017410:Practice Guidelines as Topic / Q000592:standards; D011381:Programming Languages; D012984:Software; D012985:Software Design