Abstract The Guideline Elements Model (GEM) was developed in 2000 to organize the
information contained in clinical practice guidelines using XML and to represent guideline …

Clinical and health-care knowledge management (KM) as a discipline has attracted
increasing worldwide attention in recent years. The approach encompasses a plethora of …

Medical resources are important and necessary in health care. Recently, the development of
methods for improving the efficiency of medical resource utilization is an emerging problem …

Objective: Evidence-based sets of medical orders for the treatment of patients with common
conditions have the potential to induce greater efficiency and convenience across the …

Publisher Summary The belief that better informed decisions lead to better patient outcomes
is one of the underlying tenets of evidence-based medicine and health care education. The …

As part of an enterprise effort to develop new clinical information systems at Intermountain
Health Care, the authors have built a knowledge authoring tool that facilitates the …

Decision support technologies are becoming increasingly available to medical practitioners.
A variety of programs designed to assist with drug dosing, health maintenance, diagnosis …

Drug prescription and administration processes strongly impact on the occurrence of risks in
medical settings for they can be sources of adverse drug events (ADEs). A properly …

Current tools for assessing risks associated with mental-health problems require assessors
to make high-level judgements based on clinical experience. This paper describes how new …

A major concern related to the healthcare industry is uniformity in healthcare delivery. There
is considerable variation in the diagnosis and treatment of patients depending on the …