Summary: 1
© Dr. Syed Sibte Raza Abidi, (www.cs.dal.ca/~sraza)2
Need to standardize healthcare
Standard clinical decisions
Standard tests
Standard treatments
Standard costs
Standard language to record clinical facts
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© Dr. Syed Sibte Raza Abidi, (www.cs.dal.ca/~sraza)3
A protocol is a set of
instructions. These
instructions might
describe the procedure
to be followed when
investigating a particular
set of findings in a
patient, or the method to
be followed in the
management of a given

Source: Abidi, Syed Sibte Raza - Faculty of Computer Science, Dalhousie University

Collections: Computer Technologies and Information Sciences