title: Engineering of a clinical decision support framework for the point of care use.
abstract: Computerized decision support for use at the point of care has to be comprehensive. It means that clinical information stored in electronic health records needs to be integrated with various forms of clinical knowledge (elicited from experts, discovered from data or summarized in systematic reviews of clinical trials). In order to provide such comprehensive support we created the MET-A3Support framework for constructing clinical applications aimed at various medical conditions. We employed the multiagent system paradigm and the O-MaSE methodology to define an engineering process involving three main activities: requirements engineering, analysis and design. Then we applied the process to build MET-A3Support. The paper describes the engineering process and its results, including models representing selected elements of our framework.
authors.affiliation: University of Ottawa, Ottawa, Canada.
authors.forename: Szymon
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Wilk
authors.forename: Wojtek
authors.initials: W
authors.lastname: Michalowski
authors.forename: Dympna
authors.initials: D
authors.lastname: O'Sullivan
authors.forename: Ken
authors.initials: K
authors.lastname: Farion
authors.forename: Stan
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Matwin
mesh_terms: D002170:Canada; D020000:Decision Support Systems, Clinical / Q000458:organization & administration*; D017146:Models, Organizational; D019095:Point-of-Care Systems / Q000458:organization & administration*; D012984:Software