The Electronic Toolkit: Providing View-Based Reference Materials

Abstract As web-based medical record systems are being developed and deployed, clinicians are quickly seeing a need for true point-of-care clinical reference materials. Intranet sites hosting medical knowledge resources can supply the information, but their hierarchical (location-centric) paradigms do not support a true point-of-care philosophy. We propose a model for a “view-based” repository that would provide tight integration of the web-based medical record with the point-of-care information required by clinicians.