Abstract
Several years ago, we developed Patient Condition Adaptive Path System（ PCAPS）. It describes an overall flow of possible clinical pathways that a patient’s disease state may trace and detailed medical judgment and treatments for each disease state. The application of PCAPS makes it possible to implement proper medical interventions according to disease state. Medical records kept in the PCAPS will give useful information on the patient’s state, the interventions at the state and the effects of the interventions. Through the analysis of these records, it is possible to improve the standard treatment plan.
The structured clinical knowledge will play an important role as a foundation for healthcare quality and safety, and a basis for upgrading the level of clinical processes in each hospital. It will be the most important to establish body of structured knowledge on clinical processes to be shared in a healthcare social system.
