Clinical information systems for paediatric metabolic disorders

The phenomenal technological advances achieved in technologies associated w ith the internet has tranformed information systems into service-centric st ructures. The paper discusses the role of the internet in clinical practice , and in particular the use of the internet in the diagnosis and management of a class of paediatric metabolic disorders. In the light of the results obtained in the above study, and recognising the benefits of deploying the object-oriented middleware, architecture of a clinical information system i s proposed for use by a set of stakeholders in the evidence-based healthcar e framework.