Web-Serving Health with ST-Guide

ST-Guide is a computer-interpretable clinical guidelines development, verification, and implementation project focused on primary care to chronic disease patients. It can be used to implement guides in different modes: authoritarian, apprentice, specialist, and auditor. Only specialist and authoritarian modes are functional in this release. This paper presents the project’s web services module, which complies to WSDL and SOAP open standards. ST-Guide’s web services architecture allows external computer systems to implement guidelines independently of its underlying operating system and programming language. The kind of technology presented in this paper is considered fundamental to widespread highest standard medical knowledge.