OpenClinical newsletter, 13 March 2005

Recently published on OpenClinical

Feature

New JAMA paper : updated systematic review on the effects of computerised clinical decision support systems on practitioner performance and patient outcomes

Background -

Agents : Autonomous Agents and Multi-Agent Systems for Healthcare

Standards : National and international standards that aim to support integratration of components of health information systems.

Clinical — Applications

Guidelines-based tool for the treatment of obesity : for Palm OS and PocketPC (NIH/ NHLBI/ OEI)

Hypertension guideline application : (NIH/ NHLBI/ JNC7)

Demonstrators

Onto-Builder : WWW-based software tool for the development of data dictionaries

Research — Downloads

Mycroft : browser for accessing national standard terminologies (US)

Commercial — Suppliers

Expanded listings of commercial suppliers of clinical knowledge management products.

Announcements

Workshop : Mapping The Human Body: Spatial Reasoning At The Interface Between Human Anatomy and Geographic Information Science. April 16-17, 2005, University at Buffalo, NY, USA

Richard Thomson
Editor OpenClinical

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