Executing medical logic modules expressed in ArdenML using Drools

Journal of the American Medical Informatics Association

Volumn 19, Issue 4, 2012, Pages 533-536

  Jung, Chai Young ^a   Sward, Katherine A ^a,b   Haug, Peter J ^a,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF UTAH SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF UTAH   (United States)

^c NONE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARDEN SYNTAX; ARTICLE; CLINICAL EVALUATION; DECISION SUPPORT SYSTEM; MEDICAL INFORMATION; REFERENCE VALUE;

ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE; DECISION SUPPORT SYSTEMS, CLINICAL; HUMANS; INFORMATION DISSEMINATION; KNOWLEDGE MANAGEMENT; PATTERN RECOGNITION, AUTOMATED; PROGRAMMING LANGUAGES; REFERENCE STANDARDS; USER-COMPUTER INTERFACE;

EID: 84865170681     PISSN: 10675027     EISSN: 1527974X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1136/amiajnl-2011-000512     Document Type: Article

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