OpenClinical newsletter, 18 March 2006

Background — Briefing Papers

Ethical considerations for the development of Decision Support Systems by Alan J Green, Keele University, UK

Care Pathways by Tim Benson, Abies Ltd., London. This document discusses care pathways and particularly technologies with the potential to support their
development and deployment within the Connecting for Health programme of
the NHS in England

Research — Computer-interpretable guideline models and tools

HELEN : Method and tools to support the development and execution of computerised clinical guidelines

Clinical — Applications

Coronary Heart Disease risk assessment tool from NHLBI/NCEP, USA

Commercial — Suppliers

iCONSULT : Technology to deliver medical information to electronic health records

FIRSTConsult : Web-and PDA-based clinical information system

Expanded global listings of commercial suppliers of clinical knowledge management and e-Health products.

Announcements

Call for Papers : IEEE Intelligent Systems Special Issue on Intelligent Agents in
Healthcare

Implementing SNOMED CT conference 29-30 March 2006, Royal Society of Medicine, London

The Impact of the Web on Health conference 26 May 2006, Edinburgh International Conference Centre

Richard Thomson
Editor, OpenClinical

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