Design and delivery of information resources and knowledge basesfor the diagnosis and management of liver disorders

摘要

The paper presents how a design and implementation of a system forthe investigation of patients suffering from liver disorders were done.The system is developed on the Apple Macintosh using the Hypercardsystem. Hypercard is a general purpose application development toolbased on the hypertext technique. The system consists of a collection ofchunks of text (medical knowledge, patient management procedure,statistical rules etc.) linked appropriately. The emphasis is onallowing the users to get access to the information they needed. Thecontents of the system are text and active links. By simple navigationcommands-such as merely clicking a mouse button, the users are allowedto move around in the information base and get hold of the informationsought