The Oxford clinical intranet: providing clinicians with access to patient records and multiple knowledge bases with internet technology.

The Oxford Clinical Intranet provides clinicians in primary and secondary care across Oxfordshire with: Access to information about their patients held on multiple remote disparate computer systems, including admissions and episodes, Laboratory Medicine reports, Radiology reports and hospital discharge letters. The patient records are managed using CSW Case Notes. Access to support and advisory information, developed both within the organization and collected from other sites and projects, a wide range of internal handbooks, directories and guidelines and links to external resources, including evidence-based resources, the Cochrane Collaboration and the NHS National electronic Library of Health.

An integrated knowledge management system for the clinical laboratories: an initial application of an architectural model.

eLABook is a web-distributed knowledge management system designed to support the needs of clinicians and laboratory staff in the selection and interpretation of investigations in laboratory medicine. Access can be by hyperlinks at any point through the request-report cycle, by browsing down a hierarchy, and by various search approaches. The information describes service issues, which are predominantly locally determined, and clinical implications, which may be local, national, governmental and international.