The PACE System: An Expert Consulting System for Nursing

by Steven Evans

Overview

In this volume, Steven Evans reports on a quarter century of work-work that resulted in a commercial product known as the PACE System. An advanced clinical management system, PACE links all care delivery settings and reaches across multiple episodes. It offers capabilities critical to managed care, including care planning and clinical pathways, the critical pathway analyzer and clinical repository central to outcomes-based care, and more. The pages that follow describe the PACE project, focusing on its knowledge base and semantic network. They offer insights into system implementation and address the synthesis of principles within the PACE System. From this project in nursing informatics, Steven Evans relates both suc­ cesses and failures, sharing the strategies and techniques to adopt and pitfalls to avoid in a project that followed five years of preliminary theo­ retical work. With clarity and candor, he gives us the benefit of two decades of project development, first in academia and then in the commercial sector. Over the course of the project, many tens of millions of dollars and close to 500 person-years of effort were invested. Building on the strong conceptual base developed at Creigton University's School of Nursing, the project has seen exponential growth in its clinical capabilities since entering the commercial sector in 1989.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781461273318
Publisher:	Springer New York
Publication date:	10/23/2012
Series:	Computers and Medicine
Edition description:	Softcover reprint of the original 1st ed. 1997
Pages:	167
Product dimensions:	6.10(w) x 9.25(h) x 0.02(d)

Table of Contents

1. Introduction to the PACE Project.- 2. PACE—Then and Now.- 3. Initial Knowledge Base Development.- 4. Acquiring, Maintaining, and Managing a Knowledge Base.- 5. System Implementation.- 6. Issues in Semantic Network Development and Utilization.- 7. Synthesis of Principles and Lessons Learned.- Appendix A. Taxonomy for the Health Sciences.- Appendix B. Glossary for the Taxonomy for the Health Sciences.