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Using LOINC to link an EMR to the pertinent paragraph in a structured reference knowledge base
James C Reichert1, Matt Glasgow, Scott P Narus
1Department of Medical Informatics, University of Utah, Salt Lake City, UT, USA.
Proceedings. AMIA Symposium
|December 5, 2002
Summary
Intermountain Health Care developed an "infobutton" to link electronic medical records (EMR) with online resources. This provides physicians point-of-care access to relevant medical literature, improving clinical decision-making.
Area of Science:
- Medical Informatics
- Clinical Decision Support
Background:
- Physicians need efficient access to medical knowledge at the point of care.
- Integrating electronic medical records (EMR) with information resources is a key challenge.
Purpose of the Study:
- To describe the development and architecture of an
- infobutton
- application.
- To facilitate physician access to a knowledge base integrated with the EMR.
Main Methods:
- Integrated the EMR with online information resources.
- Developed an
- infobutton
- to link clinical data (problems, medications, lab results) to reference literature.
- Structured a laboratory knowledge base for integration.
Main Results:
- The
- infobutton
- provides convenient access to pertinent reference literature.
- The application architecture successfully linked the EMR with a structured knowledge base.
Conclusions:
- The
- infobutton
- application has been positively received by physicians.
- This integration enhances clinical decision support by providing point-of-care knowledge access.