KAT: A Flexible XML-based Knowledge Authoring Environment
- Nathan C Hulse,
- Roberto A Rocha,
- Guilherme Del Fiol,
- Richard L Bradshaw,
- Timothy P Hanna,
- Lorrie K Roemer
- Affiliations of the authors: Department of Medical Informatics, University of Utah (NCH, RAR, GDF); and Medical Informatics, Intermountain Health Care (NCH, RAR, GDF, RLB, TPH, LKR), Salt Lake City, UT
- Correspondence and reprints: Nathan Hulse, PhDC, Intermountain Health Care, S3E, 4646 Lake Park Blvd., Salt Lake City, UT 84120-8212; e-mail: <nathan.hulse{at}ihc.com>
- Received 17 September 2004
- Accepted 19 March 2005
Abstract
As part of an enterprise effort to develop new clinical information systems at Intermountain Health Care, the authors have built a knowledge authoring tool that facilitates the development and refinement of medical knowledge content. At present, users of the application can compose order sets and an assortment of other structured clinical knowledge documents based on XML schemas. The flexible nature of the application allows the immediate authoring of new types of documents once an appropriate XML schema and accompanying Web form have been developed and stored in a shared repository. The need for a knowledge acquisition tool stems largely from the desire for medical practitioners to be able to write their own content for use within clinical applications. We hypothesize that medical knowledge content for clinical use can be successfully created and maintained through XML-based document frameworks containing structured and coded knowledge.
Footnotes
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Supported by grant 2 T15 LM07124 from the National Library of Medicine (NCH).
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The authors thank the members of the Clinical Consistency Project and the members of the Clinical Programs. They also thank the authors from the Urban Central and Urban South regions within Intermountain Health Care for their feedback and efforts in creating clinical knowledge base content. They express their gratitude to Dr. Terry Clemmer, Dr. George Thomsen, and the provider order entry development team at Intermountain Health Care for their insights and continuous support and collaboration. They also thank Samson Tu for his feedback regarding their efforts.
