Mapping patient treatment profiles and electronic medical records to a clinical guideline for use in patient care

Clinical guidelines reflect expert determined protocols for use in patient diagnosis and treatment. But these guidelines remain largely under used due to multiple reasons, including a lack of patient specific information, and for lack of integration with the clinician's workflow. Here we implement a novel approach to show the use of a guideline as a reference map to present a visual overview of the patient's treatment profile. We also demonstrate the use of the reference map approach to present electronic medical record data in the context of a comparative patient population. Further, we show the utility of this approach for integration within the clinician's workflow to facilitate their decision making process at the point of care.