Methods and tools for developing computerised clinical guidelines - a main focus of OpenClinical.

Quality, safety and ethics in the use of decision support systems in healthcare.

Past and current national and international projects in the field of clinical knowledge management applications and technologies.

Categories:

Clinical applications projects

Technologies, methods and tools

Communities, SIGs, portals, networks etc.

Downloadable tools generally freely available for use by clinicians and medical informatics researchers.

Open Source downloadable tools, services, methods etc. available for use by clinicians and medical informatics researchers.

Opportunities for decision support, clinical workflow and other knowledge management technologies in patient care and clinical research
Integation of Electronic Medical Records with decision support, workflow and other knowledge based systems
Standardised terminologies and languages to ensure consistent meaning across clinical applications.
Methods and tools for creating, publishing and maintaining high quality content for medical knowledge bases
New ways of working which foster the effective dissemination and productive use of knowledge and the underlying evidence
Effective communication between members of care teams and between professionals and the patient
Ways of ensuring and regulating the safe and ethical use of the new technologies where this is needed
Keeping the patient at the centre of care, using technology to empower patients and their carers without raising technological barriers to normal human relationships