PMID: 11604819Oct 18, 2001Paper

Integration of clinical practice guidelines into a distributed regional electronic patient record for tumour-patients using XML: a means for standardization of the treatment processes

Studies in Health Technology and Informatics
Volker MludekD Zierhut

Abstract

With the rising efforts to guarantee a high quality treatment in medicine and to reduce the costs in the health care system, Clinical Practice Guidelines (CPG) have developed into a very important reference in medicine. CPGs are especially useful for the standardization of multi-professional treatment processes like the care for patients with malignant diseases. The Tumour-Centre Heidelberg/Mannheim (Germany) leads a project to build up a regional, virtual distributed Electronic Patient Record (EPR) for patients with malignant diseases in the Rhein-Neckar-Area. Aims of the first stages of the project are the introduction of the distributed EPR to two co-operating pilot-clinics. In this context we intend to provide access for medical professionals not only to the data of the jointly treated patients, but also to relevant existing CPGs and other medical knowledge sources like Medline and Cochrane-Library. Knowledge and Patient data should be interlinked to offer patient-specific views on the CPG-information. As all professions have different information needs, this views should be presented individualized according to the demands of the users. We analysed three relevant CPGs and defined a meta-structure that will be refined to a ...Continue Reading

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