Electronic health record meets digital library: a new environment for achieving an old goal.
Linking the electronic health record to the digital library is a Web-era reformulation of the long-standing informatics goal of seamless integration of automated clinical data and relevant knowledge-based information to support informed decisions. The spread of the Internet, the development of the World Wide Web, and converging format standards for electronic health data and digital publications make effective linking increasingly feasible. Some existing systems link electronic health data and knowledge-based [...]
Author(s): Humphreys, B L
DOI: 10.1136/jamia.2000.0070444