PROTOCOL BUILDING TOOL FOR MEDICAL DECISION SUPPORT EXPERT SYSTEM

摘要

A computer-implemented interactive tool for creating or modifying decision rules (308) of an expert system (306) for real-time decision support, particularly for the medical field. The interactive tool enables users to incorporate or modify decision rules in the expert system without writing computer code. This tool provides adaptability of guidelines by a broad spectrum of facilities and allows modifications to meet established processes at a given facility. More particularly, one aspect of the invention includes a computer-implemented interactive tool (316) for creating or modifying decision rules of an expert system for real-time decision support, wherein the expert system presents queries to a user and responds to inputs from the user based on rules in IF-THEN form.