Medical Procedure Expert System

Implementation The goal of this research is to develop an expert system that is able to decide whether orders issued in a medical setting (diagnoses, prescriptions, procedure orders) are valid. Since the domain for medical deci-sions is very large, the solution discussed herein will serve as a proof of concept rather than a complete so-lution. To develop an expert system two things are neces-sary, an inference engine and a rule network. Before developing either piece, the underlying structure of rules had to be determined. The author’s chose to de-sign and implement a database to store rules and facts, due to the fact that the network needs to be traversed efficiently. The database schema is shown in Figure 1