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There is still a lack of full integration between current Electronic Health Records (EHRs) and medical guidelines that encapsulate evidence-based medicine. Thus, general practitioners (GPs) and specialised physicians still have to read document-based medical guidelines and decide among various options for managing common non-life-threatening conditions where the selection of the most appropriate therapeutic option for each individual patient can be a difficult task. This paper presents a simulation framework and computational test-bed, called V.A.F. Framework, for supporting simulations of clinical situations that boosted the integration between Health Level Seven (HL7) and Semantic Web technologies (OWL, SWRL, and OWL-S) to achieve content layer interoperability between online clinical cases and medical guidelines, and therefore, it proves that higher integration between EHRs and evidence-based medicine can be accomplished which could lead to a next generation of healthcare systems that provide more support to physicians and increase patients’ safety.
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Argüello, M., Des, J., Fernandez-Prieto, M.J., Perez, R., Paniagua, H. (2009). Executing Medical Guidelines on the Web: Towards Next Generation Healthcare. In: Allen, T., Ellis, R., Petridis, M. (eds) Applications and Innovations in Intelligent Systems XVI. SGAI 2008. Springer, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-84882-215-3_15
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