title: Implementation of virtual medical record object model for a standards-based clinical decision support rule engine.
abstract: The Virtual Medical Record (vMR) is a structured data model for representing individual patient informations. Our implementation of vMR is based on HL7 Reference Information Model (RIM) v2.13 from which a minimum set of objects and attributes are selected to meet the requirement of a clinical decision support (CDS) rule engine. Our success of mapping local patient data to the vMR model and building a vMR adaptor middle layer demonstrate the feasibility and advantages of implementing a vMR in a portable CDS solution.
authors.affiliation: BJC HealthCare, St. Louis, MO, USA.
authors.forename: Christine
authors.initials: C
authors.lastname: Huang
authors.forename: Laura A
authors.initials: LA
authors.lastname: Noirot
authors.forename: Kevin M
authors.initials: KM
authors.lastname: Heard
authors.forename: Richard M
authors.initials: RM
authors.lastname: Reichley
authors.forename: Wm Claiborne
authors.initials: WC
authors.lastname: Dunagan
authors.forename: Thomas C
authors.initials: TC
authors.lastname: Bailey
mesh_terms: D020000:Decision Support Systems, Clinical / Q000592:standards*; D006801:Humans; D016347:Medical Records Systems, Computerized; D012984:Software; D018511:Systems Integration