A unified system for clinical guideline management and execution

Abstract

There are several approaches to Computer-Interpretable Guidelines (CIG) representation and execution that offer the possibility of acquiring, executing and editing CPGs. Many CIG approaches aim to represent Clinical Practice Guidelines (CPGs) by computationally formalising the knowledge that they enclose, in order to be suitable for the integration in Clinical Decision Support Systems (CDSS). However, the current approaches for this purpose lack in providing a unified workflow for management and execution of CIGs. Besides characterising these limitations and identifying improvements to include in future tools, this work describes the unified architecture for CIG management and execution, a unified approach that allows the CIG acquisition, editing and execution.