Spec Clinical Meta Model
“Clinical guidelines provide evident medical knowledge for diagnostic and therapeutic issues, while clinical pathways are a road map of patient management”.
The challenge is that transfering evident knowledge (clinical guidelines) to care processes (clinical pathways) is difficult enough, but to do it across the planet with low latencies is even more difficult.
The Spec Clinical Meta Model merges the structures of Mesh Network Design with Clinical Guidelines and Clinical Pathways into a single model. It allows for data encoding in any format such as Health Level 7 (HL7) in version 3 or FHIR.
We take an ontology management approach
Therefore the model offers elements to describe an intersectoral pathway.
Ontological Technical Mapping
We provide a technical translation to generate ready-to-use pathways within the system.
- Reasoning Model
- Instance Model
- Ontological Component Mapping
https://link.springer.com/article/10.1186/2047-2501-1-13
“Clinical guidelines provide evident medical knowledge for diagnostic and therapeutic issues, while clinical pathways are a road map of patient management. The consideration of clinical guidelines during pathway development is highly recommended. But the transfer of evident knowledge (clinical guidelines) to care processes (clinical pathways) is not straightforward due to different information contents and structures.”
“A meta-model merges the structures of clinical guidelines and clinical pathways into one generic model. It is encoded through artefacts of Health Level 7 (HL7) in version 3. The deployment process to integrate the defined guideline-compliant pathways into different target systems is supported by an ontology management approach.”
Clinical Guideline
- Clinical guidelines provide evident medical knowledge for diagnostic and therapeutic issues
Clinical Protocols
- Guideline based outline of management of a specific condition
- Focused on adherence to guidelines
Clinical Pathway
- Multidisciplinary approach
- Physicians, nursing, ancillary services
- Evidence based approach to standardized patient care
- Focused on improving quality of care
- Protocols
- Guideline based outline of management of a specific condition
- Focused on adherence to guidelines specific population cohort
https://www.hl7.org/fhir/careplan.html
SOAP Notes
SOAP notes to the provider…. at the end of the consultation
When the provider looks at the encounter record
Snowmed
Snowmed to ICD10 mapping