The SAGE project
is a collaborative research and development project to
develop a standards-based comprehensive technology infrastructure
that will enable encoding and dissemination of electronic
clinical practice guidelines.
Our objective is to develop technologies with which:
Medical experts can author
and encode guidelines in a standard, computable format,
and
Health care organizations
throughout the country can deploy those guidelines easily
within any standards-conforming clinical information system.
The SAGE infrastructure
will combine best available informatics standards with innovative
guideline deployment technology to support encoding and
dissemination of both simple and complex guidelines -
spanning a breadth of clinical domains including acute care,
chronic care, and clinical trial protocols.
SAGE guideline
deployment technology will present guideline content to
clinicians through active, patient-specific recommendations
(such as reminders, order sets, care plans) surfaced through
functions of the local clinical information system, and
integrated into the care workflow.
