There is still a lack of full integration between current Electronic Health Records (EHRs) and medical guidelines that encapsulate evidence-based medicine. Thus, general practitioners (GPs) and specialised physicians still have to read document-based medical guidelines and decide among various options for managing common non-life-threatening conditions where the selection of the most appropriate therapeutic option for each individual patient can be a difficult task. This paper presents a simulation framework and computational test-bed, called V.A.F. Framework, for supporting simulations of clinical situations that boosted the integration between Health Level Seven (HL7) and Semantic Web technologies (OWL, SWRL, and OWL-S) to achieve content layer interoperability between online clinical cases and medical guidelines, and therefore, it proves that higher integration between EHRs and evidence-based medicine can be accomplished which could lead to a next generation of healthcare systems that provide more support to physicians and increase patients' safety. © 2009 Springer-Verlag London.
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Argüello, M., Des, J., Fernandez-Prieto, M. J., Perez, R., & Paniagua, H. (2009). Executing medical guidelines on the web: Towards next generation healthcare. In Applications and Innovations in Intelligent Systems XVI - Proceedings of AI 2008, the 28th SGAI International Conference on Innovative Techniques and Applications of Artificial Intelligence (pp. 197–210). Springer London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-84882-215-3_15
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