Welcome! This is a space where we will collate, evaluate and implement decision support tools.

First step for adding decision support: drug contra-indications. To be implemented by Barry Levine's team in San Francisco, this module will exist in the back end, interact with pharmacy, and send alerts when a certain drug is prescribed with another that could cause harmful effects in tandem.

Relevant links:-

Studies of clinical decision support

• A paper by D Blumenthal et al explaining its relevance in HITECH
• A paper by Fahhad Farrukhi explaining why this is important
• 1997_Lobach_12625.pdf
• A book by Marc Berg
• A study of legal liability in the age of decision support
• They might have limited benefit in high-resource settings.

 Guideline Modeling Methods (GMMs) and Medical logic modules (MLMs)

• OpenClinical
  
  • Summary of many GMMs
  • Comparison of many GMMs
• Arden Syntax
  • Arden at OpenMRS
  • Open Source Arden2ByteCode compiler
• GELLO
  
  • Compiler
• HL7 FAQ
• DXplain at the Massachusetts General Hospital Lab of Computer Science

Please feel free to add to this repository!