Mapping patient treatment profiles and electronic medical records to a clinical guideline for use in patient care

  • Authors:

  • Ketan K. Mane;Phillips Owen;Chris Bizon;Charles Schmitt;Kenneth Gersing

  • Affiliations:

  • University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill, NC, USA;University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill, NC, USA;University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill, NC, USA;University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill, NC, USA;Duke University, Durham, NC, USA

  • Venue:
  • Proceedings of the 2nd ACM SIGHIT International Health Informatics Symposium
  • Year:
  • 2012

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Abstract

Clinical guidelines reflect expert determined protocols for use in patient diagnosis and treatment. But these guidelines remain largely under used due to multiple reasons, including a lack of patient specific information, and for lack of integration with the clinician's workflow. Here we implement a novel approach to show the use of a guideline as a reference map to present a visual overview of the patient's treatment profile. We also demonstrate the use of the reference map approach to present electronic medical record data in the context of a comparative patient population. Further, we show the utility of this approach for integration within the clinician's workflow to facilitate their decision making process at the point of care.