A Model Driven Approach to Automate the Implementation of Clinical Guidelines in Decision Support Systems

Abstract

Clinical guidelines and protocols are used to aid decision making in health care. This paper presents a modelbased approach to the development of decision support systems for clinical guidelines. The guidelines are modelled using the UML Statechart language and the final system is automatically generated using an automated model transformation. Our approach is illustrated with a Spanish clinical guideline developed on the basis of a guideline published by the well-known National Guideline Clearing House (NGC).

Evolution of XML schemas and documents from stereotyped UML class models: A traceable approach

“…In particular, we have mentioned that, as a long term research goal, we are interested in the development of a ubiquitous decision support system (UDSS) [12][13][14][15] that serves as an aid in the application of clinical guidelines. The integration of our evolution tool within the UDSS as seamlessly as possible opens another line of future work.…”

“…The Generic Evolution Architecture included in the present work extends our previous evolution architecture [23], devoted to the specific database context, to a more general setting. Finally, it is worth noting that the contributions of the present work are expected to serve as a basis for the development of a ubiquitous decision support system within the healthcare domain (some complementary results in that direction are presented in [12][13][14][15]). …”

“…Regarding their definition and use, it is important to note that it is the UML model designer who is responsible for both the correctness of the definition and the application of profiles. Our contribution has been motivated by the fact that we have applied our proposal to the application domain of healthcare in order to develop a ubiquitous decision support system [12][13][14][15] that serves to help in the application of clinical guidelines. Within this application context, we have needed to use UML profiles to capture medical knowledge.…”

Research on Model-Driven Simulation Approach for Healthcare Information System

“…In view of (3) and (4) problems, researchers [7][8] has analyzed medical business process from the point of view of model test to support medical guide design. This kind of method generally requires higher normal description techniques, which are difficult to describe complex process, and do not pay attention to management optimization problems (such as business restructuring, resource allocation problem).…”

TAT-based formal representation of medical guidelines: Imatinib case-study

“…Therefore, it is essential to enable the verification of the timing and life-cycle properties of the medical protocol. The rightmost step of Figure 1 represents the synthesis step that may be performed in two different directions: (i) to produce a decision-support tool similar to the idea of [15] or to do the code synthesis for an embedded system as in [16]. Further in the paper we present TAT as a key formalism for protocols representation.…”