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Clinical guidelines contain recommendations based on the best empirical evidence available at the moment. There is a wide consensus about the benefits of guidelines and about the fact that they should be deployed through clinical information systems, making them available during clinical consultations. However, one of the main obstacles to this integration is the interaction with the electronic health record system. With the aim of solving the interoperability problems of guideline systems, we have investigated the utilisation of the openEHR standardisation proposal in the context of one of the existing guideline representation languages. Concretely, we have designed a collection of archetypes to be used within a chronic heart failure guideline. The main contribution of our work is the utilisation of openEHR archetypes in the framework of guideline representation languages. Other contributions include both the concrete set of archetypes that we have selected and the methodological approach that we have followed to obtain it.
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Marcos, M., Martínez-Salvador, B. (2011). Towards the Interoperability of Computerised Guidelines and Electronic Health Records: An Experiment with openEHR Archetypes and a Chronic Heart Failure Guideline. In: Riaño, D., ten Teije, A., Miksch, S., Peleg, M. (eds) Knowledge Representation for Health-Care. KR4HC 2010. Lecture Notes in Computer Science(), vol 6512. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-18050-7_8
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