Papers that are useful to help understand CCSS and related projects:

• Recent Rand study estimating $77 billion saved through adoption of Health IT.

• Comparing computer-interpretable guideline models: a case-study approach. J Am Med Inform Assoc. 2003 Jan-Feb;10(1):52-68.

• Approaches for creating computer-interpretable guidelines that facilitate decision support. Artif Intell Med. 2004 May;31(1):1-27.

• Representation primitives, process models and patient data in computer-interpretable clinical practice guidelines: a literature review of guideline representation models. Int J Med Inform. 2002.

• Sharable computer-based clinical practice guidelines: rationale, obstacles, approaches, and prospects. Medinfo 2001;10(Pt 1):201-5

• Representation Formalisms and Computational Methods for Modeling Guideline-Based Patient Care. First European Workshop on Computer-based Support for Clinical Guidelines and Protocols, Leipzig, Germany, 125-142. 2000.

• Representation of Clinical Practice Guidelines For Computer-based Implementations Medinfo, London, UK, 2001.

• Toward Standardization of Electronic Guidelines. MD Computing, Vol. 17, No. 6, 2000, pp. 39-44.

• Knowledge-based Decision-support Systems for Implementing Clinical Practice Guidelines - Tutorial.