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Designing guideline-based workflow-integrated electronic health records

The recent trend in health care has been on the development and implementation of clinical guidelines to support and comply with evidence-based care. Evidence-based care is established with a view to improve the overall quality of care for patients, reduce costs, and address medico-legal issues. One of the main questions addressed by this thesis is how to support guideline-based care. It is recognised that this is better achieved by taking into consideration the provider workflow. However, workflow support remains a challenging (and hence rarely seen) accomplishment in practice, particularly in the context of chronic disease management (CDM). Our view is that guidelines can be knowledge-engineered into four main artefacts: electronic health record (EHR) content, computer-interpretable guideline (CiG), workflow and hypermedia. The next question is then how to coordinate and make use of these artefacts in a health information system (HIS). We leverage the EHR since we view this as the core component to any HIS. / PhD Doctorate

Identiferoai:union.ndltd.org:ADTP/269024
Date January 2005
CreatorsBarretto, Sistine
Source SetsAustraliasian Digital Theses Program
LanguageEN-AUS
Detected LanguageEnglish
RightsCopyright 2005 Sistine Barretto.

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