Description and status update on GELLO: A proposed standardized object-oriented expression language for clinical decision support

Margarita Sordo; Aziz A. Boxwala; Omolola Ogunyemi; Robert Greenes

doi:10.3233/978-1-60750-949-3-164

Description and status update on GELLO: A proposed standardized object-oriented expression language for clinical decision support

Margarita Sordo, Aziz A. Boxwala, Omolola Ogunyemi, Robert Greenes

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Abstract

A major obstacle to sharing computable clinical knowledge is the lack of a common language for specifying expressions and criteria. Such a language could be used to specify decision criteria, formulae, and constraints on data and action. Although the Arden Syntax addresses this problem for clinical rules, its generalization to HL7's object-oriented data model is limited. The GELLO Expression language is an object-oriented language used for expressing logical conditions and computations in the GLIF3 (GuideLine Interchange Format, v. 3) guideline modeling language. It has been further developed under the auspices of the HL7 Clinical Decision Support Technical Committee, as a proposed HL7 standard., GELLO is based on the Object Constraint Language (OCL), because it is vendor-independent, object-oriented, and side-effect-free. GELLO expects an object-oriented data model. Although choice of model is arbitrary, standardization is facilitated by ensuring that the data model is compatible with the HL7 Reference Information Model (RIM).

Original language	English (US)
Title of host publication	Studies in Health Technology and Informatics
Pages	164-168
Number of pages	5
Volume	107
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.3233/978-1-60750-949-3-164
State	Published - 2004
Externally published	Yes

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clinical decision support
Expression language

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Biomedical Engineering
Health Informatics
Health Information Management

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