The Arden Syntax standard for clinical decision support: Experiences and directions

Journal of Biomedical Informatics

Volumn 45, Issue 4, 2012, Pages 711-718

  Samwald, Matthias ^a,b   Fehre, Karsten ^c   de Bruin, Jeroen ^a   Adlassnig, Klaus Peter ^a,c  

^a MEDICAL UNIVERSITY OF VIENNA   (Austria)

^b VIENNA UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Austria)

^c Medexter Healthcare GmbH   (Austria)

Author keywords

Arden Syntax; Clinical decision support; HL7; Standards

Indexed keywords

ACCESSING DATA; APPLICATION SERVERS; ARDEN SYNTAX; CDS; CLINICAL DECISION SUPPORT; CLINICAL PROBLEMS; DEVELOPMENT ENVIRONMENT; HEALTH INFORMATION SYSTEMS; HEALTH LEVEL 7; HL7; NOSOCOMIAL INFECTION; PRACTICAL IMPLEMENTATION; RULE ENGINE; SCIENTIFIC KNOWLEDGE; SHARED LIBRARIES; STANDARDIZED INTERFACES; SYNTACTIC FEATURES; TECHNICAL INTEGRATION;

DECISION SUPPORT SYSTEMS; QUERY LANGUAGES; STANDARDS;

SYNTACTICS;

ARDEN SYNTAX STANDARD; ARTICLE; DECISION SUPPORT SYSTEM; HEPATITIS; HOSPITAL INFECTION; HUMAN; MELANOMA; METASTASIS; MONITORING; PREDICTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEROLOGY; STANDARD;

ALGORITHMS; ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE; CLINICAL CODING; DECISION SUPPORT SYSTEMS, CLINICAL; HUMANS; LINGUISTICS; MALE;

EID: 84865104851     PISSN: 15320464     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jbi.2012.02.001     Document Type: Article

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