About OpenClinical.net
OpenClinical.net was created as an extension of OpenClinical.org, a web portal which aims to promote awareness of and use of decision support and other knowledge technologies in patient care and clinical research. OpenClinical.org has a particular interest in providing information on the field of computer-interpretable guideline developments and aims to cover all current languages, methods, tools and technologies as well as demonstrator applications and systems in clinical practice based on these methods. OpenClinical.net’s mission is to demonstrate ways in which these methods and tools to develop computer-interpretable guideline applications can facilitate and promote the deployment of guideline-based services in healthcare.
Initial goals of OpenClinical.net
- To demonstrate software tools and editorial processes for creating, publishing and maintaining knowledge-based services for supporting healthcare professionals at all stages of patient care;
- To build a repository of clinical knowledge applications which can be used or adapted for delivering point of care services in a range of medical specialties;
- To implement a lifecycle for medical knowledge application development, spanning the formalization of medical knowledge to the delivery of point-of-care services. The lifecycle is designed to involve clinicians in the clinical assessment and ongoing development of clinical guidelines and evidence-based practice.