By translating the recommendations in clinical practice guidelines at the source, and disseminating a computable version along with the narrative version of the guidelines, the effort of translation would not be repeated across every organization that intends to apply the recommendations. Likewise, unnecessary or unintentional variations as a result of duplicative translation efforts could be prevented with a standard, computable version that is ready to be implemented. In removing the need for translating recommendations at each local clinical system, and removing as much variation in guidelines translation and specification as possible through a standard translation, use of standard component knowledge artifacts, and thus reduce the time needed to apply the recommendations in practice, helping scientific evidence reach patient care more easily, quickly, accurately, and consistently