Thanks for the pointer Matt -- the JAMIA paper looks interesting. Regards, - Jyoti
On 10/24/07, Matt Williams <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > 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 > > -- Jyotishman Pathak WWW: http://www.cs.iastate.edu/~jpathak
