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OpenClinical.net is developing novel methods for publishing and disseminating computer-interpretable medical knowledge for applications in clinical decision-making, care planning, workflow management, and other point-of-care services. The motivation for this is the challenge of delivering consistently high quality patient care due to demands on services and the explosive growth in current knowledge about diseases and best treatments. It is now impossible for unaided healthcare professionals to stay up to date and deliver patient care with the efficacy and safety that modern medical science makes possible. OpenClinical.net is exploring solutions to this challenge. |
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OpenClinical.net has been set up as an extension to the www.openclinical.org web portal. Since 2002 the portal has established a reputation for independent, trustworthy and up-to-date information about developments in the field. It has established a worldwide user base of clinicians and researchers, commercial and other professionals exceeding 25,000 individuals. OpenClinical.org’s mission was to promote awareness and use of decision support and other knowledge technologies for patient care and clinical research; OpenClinical.net’s mission is to demonstrate how to deliver those services. |
The short term goals of OpenClinical.net are to
- demonstrate software tools and editorial processes for creating, publishing and maintaining knowledge-based services for supporting healthcare professionals at all stages in a patient’s care;
- build a repository of knowledge content which can be used or adapted for delivering point of care services in a range of medical specialties,
- implement a “lifecycle” for application development, spanning the formalization of medical knowledge to the delivery of services. The lifecycle is designed to involve clinicians in the clinical assessment and ongoing development of clinical guidelines and evidence-based practice (see figure which should be titled OpenClinical Publishing lifecycle).
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