Document Type
Conference Paper
Rights
Available under a Creative Commons Attribution Non-Commercial Share Alike 4.0 International Licence
Disciplines
Computer Sciences
Abstract
This paper addresses issues of the active database application in the challenging healthcare area: the management and execution of computerised clinical practice guidelines/protocols. The problem of how to efficiently and effectively quey and manipulate the computerised clinical protocols/guidelines has posed a major challenge but received little research attention until very recently. By proposing a declarative modelling language (PLAN) with an Event-Condition-Action (ECA) mechanism for clinical test-ordering protocols, and an automatic mapping and management system (TOPS), this paper addresses this issue, in an important medical domain, from a unified approach based on an active rule mechanism. The work presented in this paper is part of an on-going research effort that investigates a new application domain for active databases, and proposes some new requirements towards the enhancements of active DBMS functionalities
DOI
https://doi.org/10.1109/CODAS.2001.945143
Recommended Citation
Wu, B. & Dube, K. (2001). Applying Event-Condition-Action Mechanism in Healthcare: A Computerised Clinical Test-Ordering Protocol System (TOPS). IEEE third International Symposium on Cooperative Database Systems for Advanced Applications (CODAS’01), Beijing, China. doi:10.1109/CODAS.2001.945143
Publication Details
The IEEE third International Symposium on Cooperative Database Systems for Advanced Applications (CODAS’01) Beijing, China. (2001)