Coupling Clinical Decision Support System with Computerized Prescriber Order Entry and their Dynamic Plugging in the Medical Workflow System

TL;DR

This paper presents a multi-agent system approach to effectively couple Clinical Decision Support Systems with Computerized Prescriber Order Entry and integrate them into medical workflow management systems, addressing limitations of existing solutions.

Contribution

It introduces a novel multi-agent system framework for coupling CDSS with CPOE and medical WfMS, enhancing integration and coordination capabilities.

Findings

Proposed MAS effectively couples CDSS with CPOE.

Integration improves workflow management in medical systems.

Addresses heterogeneity and distribution challenges in healthcare systems.

Abstract

This work deals with coupling Clinical Decision Support System (CDSS) with Computerized Prescriber Order Entry (CPOE) and their dynamic plugging in the medical Workflow Management System (WfMS). First, in this paper we argue some existing CDSS representative of the state of the art in order to emphasize their inability to deal with coupling with CPOE and medical WfMS. The multi-agent technology is at the basis of our proposition since (i) it provides natural abstractions to deal with distribution, heterogeneity and autonomy which are inherent to the previous systems (CDSS, CPOE and medical WfMS), and (ii) it introduces powerful concepts such as organizations, goals and roles useful to describe in details the coordination of the different components involved in these systems. In this paper, we also propose a Multi-Agent System (MAS) to support the coupling CDSS with CPOE. Finally, we show how we integrate the proposed MAS in the medical workflow management system which is also based on collaborating agents