Neonate - a prototype of a comprehensive expert system embedded inside a hospital information system

Neonate is a prototype of an expert system for the Newborn Intensive Care Unit developed at the Primary Children's Medical Center in Salt Lake Cityt, Utah. The System is designed to be embedded in the Help Hospital Information System and as such has all the characteristics of a HIS (data acquisition. data analysis and data reporting). The decision module of NEONATE is designed to produce an admission problem list and to notify physicians if tests that prevent the system from confirming or eliminating diagnostic hypotheses are missing. The knowledge base mimics the cognitive model to make the system as close as possible to the physicians methods to enhance the acceptance of the system in future.