Integration of a knowledge-based system and a clinical documentation system via a data dictionary
Eich, H.P.; Ohmann, C.; Keim, E.; Lang, K.
Studies in Health Technology and Informatics 43 Pt A: 431-435
1997
ISSN/ISBN: 0926-9630 PMID: 10179586 Document Number: 475444
This paper describes the design and realisation of a knowledge-based system and a clinical documentation system linked via a data dictionary. The software was developed as a shell with object oriented methods and C++ for IBM-compatible PC's and WINDOWS 3.1/95. The data dictionary covers terminology and document objects with relations to external classifications. It controls the terminology in the documentation program with form-based entry of clinical documents and in the knowledge-based system with scores and rules. The software was applied to the clinical field of acute abdominal pain by implementing a data dictionary with 580 terminology objects, 501 document objects, and 2136 links; a documentation module with 8 clinical documents and a knowledge-based system with 10 scores and 7 sets of rules.