jlnewman wrote on Monday, September 12, 2005:
Hi Developers,
I’m planning to embark on a project to build a decision support engine for OpenEMR.
This engine will draw on evidence based rules and patient information to promote activities. It will have reminder systems for screening and treatment protocols and ideally integrate with openEMR to record the actions taken.
Because no one can foresee future interventions, and current ones are disputable, the decision engine will be flexible and modular. Individual practitioners will be able to adjust the level of alert and types of alerts. They will be able to build their own custom alerts and ideally import others that have been built.
The interface will intially be a separate tab and maybe someday appear seamlessly throughout an OpenEMR session.
Has this already been done, designed, or addressed?
I am hoping to have a system that works by next July so I can study it as part of a research project.
Any suggestions are welcome. If there are a bunch of people interested I’d share my ideas on how to build it.
My initial thought is a tab on the header bar in a patient’s chart that leads to a report with links for prescriptions, lab referal forms, email, etc. depending on the action.
Pages on the administrative side will allow for customization of the system, importation of modules, designing of custom alerts (by sql query), and custom actions upon finding a certain condition.
Any thoughts?