Management of discharge summaries based on XML

Author

Román, I. ; Roa, L.M. ; Vozmediano, J.M. ; Corrales, L.

Author_Institution

Area de Ingenieria Telematica, Seville Univ., Spain

fYear

2003

fDate

24-26 April 2003

Firstpage

358

Lastpage

361

Abstract

The proliferation of XML as the standard for information exchange has given rise to an increase of XML based healthcare information system. This is due in part to the increase of standardization works based on this technology. XML facilitates the interoperability among heterogeneous systems, the panacea for electronic patient record systems. This paper addresses the benefits of using XML in the management of discharge summaries, an essential document in the medical context. Further benefits of the integration of heterogeneous healthcare systems are reported too. An architecture for edition, storage, retrieval and query of this kind of documents and first results in this line are presented.

Keywords

hypermedia markup languages; medical information systems; XML based healthcare information system; discharge summaries; documents; electronic patient record systems; heterogeneous healthcare systems; heterogeneous systems; information exchange; medical context; panacea; query; retrieval; standardization works; storage; Biomedical imaging; Clinical diagnosis; Fault location; History; Hospitals; Management information systems; Medical services; Paramagnetic resonance; Standardization; XML;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Information Technology Applications in Biomedicine, 2003. 4th International IEEE EMBS Special Topic Conference on

Print_ISBN

0-7803-7667-6

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/ITAB.2003.1222553

Filename

1222553