Adding decision support to a clinical information system

Article type: Research Article

Authors: Bågenholm, P.^{a; *; 1} | Anderskär, K.^a | Gill, H.^a | Jönsson, K.Å.^b | Wigertz, O.^a

Affiliations: [a] Department of Biomedical Engineering, Medical Informatics, Linköping University, S-58183 Linköping, Sweden | [b] Department of Medicine, University Hospital S-581 85 Linköping, Sweden

Correspondence: [*] Corresponding author: Tel + 46 13 227294 Fax + 46 13 104131.

Note: [1] At the Second European Conference on Engineering and Medicine, held at Stuttgart during April 25–28 this contribution was orally presented as part of the Workshop on New Developments in Patient Oriented Medical Information Systems and Workstations organized by O. Wigertz, Linköping. The presentation was subsequently produced as a manuscript to be published in Technology and Health Care.

Abstract: Methods and tools were developed and designed to give assistance when creating and maintaining decision support systems in which the knowledge part is represented as rules written according to the Arden Syntax. Methods have also been designed and developed to support the process of adding decision support systems to clinical systems.

Keywords: Arden Syntax, Decision Support, System Development

DOI: 10.3233/THC-1994-1401

Journal: Technology and Health Care, vol. 1, no. 4, pp. 245-251, 1994