Third generation electronic medical record knowledge based perspectives

There is a need to develop better electronic medical records. One possible solution is to put more and more 'routine' medical knowledge into systems handling medical records. In this paper, we analyze the current state-of-the-art of knowledge-based medical record handling; we mainly consider the work of Rector et al. [1]. We offer a more detailed 'four level' knowledge level model compared to the 'two level' model of Rector. The EMR of the future might be approached with a top-down method, using the above mentioned 'four level' model.