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Re: Decision Support Providers


Thanks Rong

Tony

Rong Chen wrote:
> Thanks, Tony!
>
> I failed to find any mentioned CDS standards (or in fact design
> specifications since it's probably not a SDO ;-) published by Anvita.
> Perhaps others have better luck. What's interesting here is this is
> perhaps yet another example of creating a new 'standard' for the
> purpose of CDS.
>
> In the chemotherapy guideline paper, we studied half-dozen well-known
> guideline representation formats and concluded that to overcome the
> interoperability problem between EHRs and CDSS, guidelines can be
> expressed with EHR models directly together with rules and process
> definitions. Since both the CDS rule triggering conditions and
> recommendations (order sets, dose adjustments, lab requests etc) are
> in fact either based on data from EHR or candidate EHR entries, it
> seems reasonable to express guidelines with EHR models.
>
> Rules are needed to express guideline logic. The fact that openEHR has
> no its own rule language or an ambition to develop one is a very good
> thing. This means external rule language can be plugged into openEHR
> framework when necessary. Well-established rule engines like CLIPS,
> Jess or JBoss Drools are good candidates here. What we need to do in
> the openEHR community is to develop a good mechanism allowing rule
> plug-ins, e.g. necessary syntax in template/archetype for attachment
> of rules.
>
> I will try to document some of our experiences on the wiki in the 
> coming months.
>
> Cheers,
> Rong
>
> On 29 June 2010 14:57, Tony Shannon <tony.shannon@nhs.net> wrote:
>> Many thanks Rong,
>>
>> The approach you outline which reuses archetypes and templates from 
>> EHR
>> models resonates as a logical way to tackle this.
>>
>> John Halamka mentions in his blog...
>> "Thus, Anvita has defined clinical decision support (CDS) standards 
>> to
>> transmit decision support recommendations from the service provider 
>> back
>> to the EHR. I am unaware any widely implemented standards that do 
>> this
>> today. "
>>
>> Can you comment on his quote/article?
>>
>> Also can you say some more about the rules element of your work..
>>
>> Many thanks,
>>
>> Tony
>>
>> Dr. Tony Shannon
>> Consultant in Emergency Medicine, Leeds Teaching Hospitals
>> Clinical Lead for Informatics,    Leeds Teaching Hospitals
>> Chair, Clinical Review Board, openEHR Foundation
>> +44.789.988 5068            tony.shannon@nhs.net
>>
>
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Dr. Tony Shannon
Consultant in Emergency Medicine, Leeds Teaching Hospitals
Clinical Lead for Informatics,    Leeds Teaching Hospitals
Chair, Clinical Review Board, openEHR Foundation
+44.789.988 5068            tony.shannon@nhs.net

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