This thesis explores ways of how openEHR can come into evidence-based practice via clinical practice guidelines. It covers the following in essence, amongst some other things:
It proposes a method for representing guidelines based on CARE_ENTRY types, the so-called Care Entry-Network Model.
It gives one of the first ever detailed accounts of how the openEHR-based Guideline Definition Language (GDL) works.
It conducts the first ever GDL-based study using patient data from a registry.
The latter effort, using the Safe Implementation of Treatments in Stroke (SITS) international patient data registry, leads to real clinical findings.
Sincerely,
Nadim
Nadim Anani, PhD
Centrum för hälsoinformatik / Health Informatics Centre (HIC)
You might also want to take a look at the publications from our recently stopped MobiGuide project were we used CIG for decision support on patient with AF and Diabetes. http://www.mobiguide-project.eu/news-media/publications. Will try to read your thesis completely over the weekend..
When I started my PhD in 2011 FHIR hardly existed/did not exist (I think).
Also, I name other reasons for the choice: “We chose to work with openEHR in this thesis in order to set a research scope, and because of the advantage of freely available and open-sourced resources. We had also gained some experience with and knowledge in openEHR prior to the start of this project. At the same time, this thesis’ findings can serve as a basis for comparisons with modelling and implementation of computerised clinical guidelines using other standard specifications.”
