Abstract
Clinical practice guidelines are knowledge uptake instrument that support decision making by the physicians. They are often implemented as computer-interpreted guidelines that are embedded in a hospital information system. We argue that computer-interpreted guidelines should be considered as regular information system, thus their development should follow all the steps of system analysis and design, starting with exploration and definition of user requirements. In this paper we propose the ActCPG conceptual framework to establish basic user requirements for implementing computer-interpreted guidelines. This framework relies on the Activity Theory to structure and decompose information coming from a clinical practice guideline and associated narrative so UML use cases can be developed. We illustrate operation of the ActCPG framework with an example of a practice guideline for a management of clinically obese children enrolled in some obesity program.
Original language | English |
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Title of host publication | ECIS 2012 |
Subtitle of host publication | Proceedings of the 20th European Conference on Information Systems |
Editors | Jan Pries-Heje, Mike Chiasson, Jonathan Wareham, Xavier Busquets, Josep Valor, Sandra Seiber |
Place of Publication | Atlanta, Georgia |
Publisher | Association for Information Systems |
Number of pages | 12 |
ISBN (Print) | 9788488971548 |
Publication status | Published - 2012 |
Externally published | Yes |
Event | 20th European Conference on Information Systems, ECIS 2012 - Barcelona, Spain Duration: 10 Jun 2012 → 13 Jun 2012 |
Other
Other | 20th European Conference on Information Systems, ECIS 2012 |
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Country/Territory | Spain |
City | Barcelona |
Period | 10/06/12 → 13/06/12 |
Keywords
- clinical practice guidelines
- computer-interpreted guideline
- Activity Theory
- ActAD
- user requirements