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Directions in clinical guideline programming – CHA2DS2-VASc
The above shows a typical web form calculator for the CHA2DS2-VASc score, used for estimating the risk of stroke in patients with non-rheumatic atrial fibrillation (AF), primarily for the purpose of deciding the use of anti-coagulant therapy [Wikipedia]. How would such … Continue reading
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Tagged cds, CIGs, CPGs, guidelines
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Clinical Decision Logic Fun
How close can we get to making a clinical decision logic language look like the published guidelines which it is used to encode? Below is an openEHR Decision Logic Module (DLM) example, in the current form of the openEHR Decision … Continue reading
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Tagged cds, decision support, guidelines, OMG DMN
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Towards a standard analysis of computable guidelines, clinical workflow, decision support and … the curly braces problem
Why don’t we have widespread clinical decision support (CDS), computable guidelines, clinical workflow (plans), and why don’t the pieces we do have talk to the health record? The first time I heard such challenges framed was around 2000, and even … Continue reading
Posted in Health Informatics, openehr, standards
Tagged BPM+, care pathway, care plan, decision support, EHR, guidelines, openEHR
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