title: Virtual medical record implementation for enhancing clinical decision support.
abstract: Development of clinical decision support systems (CDS) is a process which highly depends on the local databases, this resulting in low interoperability. To increase the interoperability of CDS a standard representation of clinical information is needed. The paper suggests a CDS architecture which integrates several HL7 standards and the new vMR (virtual Medical Record). The clinical information for the CDS systems (the vMR) is represented with Topic Maps technology. Beside the implementation of the vMR, the architecture integrates: a Data Manager, an interface, a decision making system (based on Egadss), a retrieving data module. Conclusions are issued.
authors.affiliation: Department of Automation and Applied Informatics, University Politehnica Timisoara, Timisoara, Romania. valentin.gomoi@aut.upt.ro
authors.forename: Valentin-Sergiu
authors.initials: VS
authors.lastname: Gomoi
authors.forename: Daniel
authors.initials: D
authors.lastname: Dragu
authors.forename: Vasile
authors.initials: V
authors.lastname: Stoicu-Tivadar
mesh_terms: D057225:Data Mining / Q000592:standards*; D003660:Decision Support Systems, Management / Q000592:standards*; D057286:Electronic Health Records / Q000592:standards*; D057208:Health Level Seven; D055991:Health Records, Personal; D008498:Medical Record Linkage / Q000592:standards; D012383:Romania; D014584:User-Computer Interface