title: Medical guidelines presentation and comparing with Electronic Health Record.
abstract: Electronic Health Record (EHR) systems are now being developed in many places. More advanced systems provide also reminder facilities, usually based on if-then rules. In this paper we propose a method how to build the reminder facility directly upon the guideline interchange format (GLIF) model of medical guidelines. The method compares data items on the input of EHR system with medical guidelines GLIF model and is able to reveal if the input data item, that represents patient diagnosis or proposed patient treatment, contradicts with medical guidelines or not. The reminder facility can be part of EHR system itself or it can be realized by a stand-alone reminder system (SRS). The possible architecture of stand-alone reminder system is described in this paper and the advantages of stand-alone solution are discussed. The part of the EHR system could be also a browser that would present graphical GLIF model in easy to understand manner on the user screen. This browser can be data driven and focus attention of user to the relevant part of medical guidelines GLIF model.
authors.affiliation: European Center for Medical Informatics, Statistics and Epidemiology, The Czech Republic. vesely@euromise.cz
authors.forename: Arnost
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Veselý
authors.forename: Jana
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Zvárová
authors.forename: Jan
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Peleska
authors.forename: David
authors.initials: D
authors.lastname: Buchtela
authors.forename: Zdenek
authors.initials: Z
authors.lastname: Anger
mesh_terms: D018153:Czech Republic; D003628:Database Management Systems / Q000592:standards*; D003660:Decision Support Systems, Management / Q000592:standards*; D003661:Decision Support Techniques; D033181:Information Dissemination / Q000379:methods; D016247:Information Storage and Retrieval / Q000592:standards*; D008498:Medical Record Linkage / Q000592:standards; D016347:Medical Records Systems, Computerized / Q000592:standards*; D017410:Practice Guidelines as Topic / Q000592:standards*; D012042:Registries; D017216:Telemedicine / Q000592:standards*; D014584:User-Computer Interface