SEMI-AUTOMATIC VALIDATION OF SUCCESSIVE VERSIONS OF A CLINICAL DECISION SUPPORT SYSTEM

摘要

an inference engine (20, 22) configured to generate clinical decision recommendations for a patient based on information pertaining to the patient, the inference engine comprising rules (16) developed by a plurality of medical experts (14) and codified into software; an electronic outliers detector (52) configured to detect outlier cases that are probative of a potential flaw in the inference engine; an outliers database (60) configured to collect information pertaining to the outlier cases detected by the electronic outliers detector; and an outliers report generator (62) configured to generate a report (64) on the outlier cases detected by the electronic outliers detector, the generated report containing at least some information collected in the outliers database. Fig. 1