Before getting to hung up on GLIF per se, you might want to consider
some of the other Guideline representation languages such as (OTTOMH)
Asbru, ProForma, Guide, Prodigy, etc.
Have a look at Openclinical.net for (many) more pointers
There is a comparison of some of them from a JAMIA 2002 article:
http://www.pubmedcentral.nih.gov/articlerender.fcgi?artid=150359
HTH,
Matt
Jyotishman Pathak wrote:
This is sort of interesting, because I am also trying to explore more
information about GLIF, and was looking for relevant pointers:
http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/semantic-web/2007Oct/0261.html
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/sites/entrez?cmd=Retrieve&db=pubmed&dopt=AbstractPlus&list_uids=15196480
Regards,
- Jyoti
On 10/24/07, Kashyap, Vipul <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Thanks for the pointer. We should definitely look at it some point.
For the most part, GLIF has been a non-starter with very few real world
implementations.
---Vipul
=======================================
Vipul Kashyap, Ph.D.
Senior Medical Informatician
Clinical Informatics R&D, Partners HealthCare System
Phone: (781)416-9254
Cell: (617)943-7120
http://www.partners.org/cird/AboutUs.asp?cBox=Staff&stAb=vik
To keep up you need the right answers; to get ahead you need the right questions
---John Browning and Spencer Reiss, Wired 6.04.95
-----Original Message-----
From: Alan Ruttenberg [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Wednesday, October 24, 2007 11:37 AM
To: Kashyap, Vipul
Cc: public-semweb-lifesci hcls
Subject: [COI] seen on another list: GLIF
http://www.glif.org/glif_main.html
Clinical practice guidelines and protocols are being applied in
diverse areas including policy development, utilization management,
education, reference, clinical decision support, conduct of clinical
trials, and workflow facilitation. Many parties are engaged in
developing guidelines, an arduous task with much redundancy and
overlap among the resulting products, but there is little
standardization to facilitate sharing or to enable adaptation to
local practice settings.
GLIF is a specification for structured representation of guidelines.
It was developed by the InterMed Collaboratory in order to facilitate
sharing of clinical guidelines (Ohno-Machado, Gennari et al. 1998).
The InterMed collaboratory was a joint project of medical informatics
laboratories at Harvard (the Decision Systems Group at Brigham and
Women's Hospital and Laboratory of Computer Science at Massachusetts
General Hospital), Stanford, Columbia, and McGill Universities
(Shortliffe, Barnett et al. 1996). That work is being continued under
new funding by a subgroup of the InterMed collaborators, including
the Decision Systems Group at Harvard, McGill, Columbia, Stanford,
and the American College of Physicans-American Society of Internal
Medicine. The objective of the GLIF specification is to provide a
representation for guidelines that have the following characteristics:
* Precise
* Non-ambiguous
* Human-readable
* Computable (in the sense that guidelines specified in GLIF may be
used for computer-based decision support)
* Independent of computing platforms (thus enabling sharing of
guidelines)
Version 2.0 of GLIF (GLIF2) was published in 1998 (Ohno-Machado,
Gennari et al. 1998). That version of GLIF has been the basis for
several implementations of guideline-based applications, including
one in the Brigham's BICS information system (Zielstorff, Teich et
al. 1998). Web-based applications for driving clinical consultations
(Boxwala, Greenes et al. 1999), and applications that search for
eligible clinical protocols (Ohno-Machado, Wang et al. 1999).
The information transmitted in this electronic communication is intended only
for the person or entity to whom it is addressed and may contain confidential
and/or privileged material. Any review, retransmission, dissemination or other
use of or taking of any action in reliance upon this information by persons or
entities other than the intended recipient is prohibited. If you received this
information in error, please contact the Compliance HelpLine at 800-856-1983
and properly dispose of this information.
--
http://acl.icnet.uk/~mw
http://adhominem.blogsome.com/
+44 (0)7834 899570
