Abstract: A method for integrating clinical pathway management systems with electronic medical record databases, comprising: (i) providing a CPMS database comprising information about a current clinical pathway for patients; (ii) providing an electronic medical records (EMR) database comprising medical records for the patients; (iii) generating an EMR equivalence map comprising a map of each of objects in the EMR database to standard data format objects; (iv) generating a CPMS equivalence map for the CPMS database, comprising a map of objects in the CPMS database to the standard data format objects; (v) mapping objects from the EMR equivalence map to each of one or more steps in one of a plurality of clinical pathway workflows; (vi) generating a SQL command related to an event in a clinical pathway workflow for one or more of the plurality of patients; and (vii) executing the generated SQL command to retrieve an electronic medical record from the EMR database.

Abstract: A method for alerting a user of a clinical pathways management system to a clinical pathway deviation, comprising: (i) providing a reference ontology comprising information about a plurality of clinical pathways; (ii) defining a domain ontology; (iii) converting the domain ontology to one or more graphical representations of clinical pathways; (iv) generating one or more deviation rules for the clinical pathways; (v) receiving information about one or more interventions relative to a patient being treated using a first clinical pathway; (vi) identifying, by comparing the received information about one or more interventions with the one or more deviation rules for the first clinical pathway, one or more deviations from the first clinical pathway; and (vii) alerting the user of the clinical pathways management system to the identified one or more deviations from the first clinical pathway.