Executing medical guidelines on the web: Towards next generation healthcare

Arguello-Casteleiro, M; Des, J; Fernandez-Prieto, MJ; Perez, R; Paniagua, H

Abstract

There is still a lack of full integration between current Electronic Health Records (EHRs) and medical guidelines that encapsulate evidence-based medicine. Thus, general practitioners (GPs) and specialised physicians still have to read document-based medical guidelines and decide among various options for managing common non-life-threatening conditions where the selection of the most appropriate therapeutic option for each individual patient can be a difficult task. This paper presents a simulation framework and computational test-bed, called V.A.F. Framework, for supporting simulations of clinical situations that boosted the integration between Health Level Seven (HL7) and Semantic Web technologies (OWL, SWRL, and OWL-S) to achieve content layer interoperability between online clinical cases and medical guidelines, and therefore, it proves that higher integration between EHRs and evidence-based medicine can be accomplished which could lead to a next generation of healthcare systems that provide more support to physicians and increase patients’ safety.

Citation

Arguello-Casteleiro, M., Des, J., Fernandez-Prieto, M., Perez, R., & Paniagua, H. (2009). Executing medical guidelines on the web: Towards next generation healthcare. Knowledge-Based Systems, 22(7), 545-551. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.knosys.2008.10.003

• Journal Article Type: Article
• Publication Date: Jan 1, 2009
• Deposit Date: Dec 14, 2011
• Journal: Knowledge-Based Systems
• Print ISSN: 0950-7051
• Publisher: Elsevier
• Peer Reviewed: Peer Reviewed
• Volume: 22
• Issue: 7
• Pages: 545-551
• DOI: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.knosys.2008.10.003
• Publisher URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.knosys.2008.10.003