System and Method for Integrating Medical Treatment Guidelines with Real-Time, Ad-Hoc, Community Generated Commentary to Facilitate Collaborative Evidence-Based Practice

摘要

A system and method for automatically integrating real-time, ad-hoc, community generated commentary such as comments, notes, observations, and anecdotal data in any human perceptible form with medical treatment guidelines (otherwise known as “clinical guidelines”, “clinical protocols”, or “clinical practice guidelines”) to create a display that shows the medical treatment guideline alongside the commentary. The present invention employs a server with a database capable of receiving and displaying commentary from local or remote users via a network, such as the Internet using various terminal devices such as a computers, smartphones, or tablets. The present invention provides an accessible, dynamically revised stream of commentary thus creating an evolving resource in which infrequently revised medical treatment guidelines are supplemented with commentary in real-time. The utilization of medical treatment guidelines by health-care providers now characterized as “evidence based medicine” or “evidence based practice” is thus advanced constituting what is termed as “collaborative evidence-based practice.”