Category Archives: decision support

Directions in clinical guideline programming – CHA2DS2-VASc

Posted on 29/03/2021 by wolandscat

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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Clinical Decision Logic Fun

Posted on 22/10/2020 by wolandscat

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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Towards a standard analysis of computable guidelines, clinical workflow, decision support and … the curly braces problem

Posted on 24/06/2020 by wolandscat

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 →

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