Title :
Syntax and semantics of languages for medical information processing
Author :
Coleman, William P. ; Sanford, David P. ; DeGaetano, Andrea
Author_Institution :
Dept. of Math. & Stat., Maryland Univ., Baltimore, MD, USA
Abstract :
A set of suggestions is presented by the authors to IEEE committees working to standardize medical data communications between devices and host computers (IEEE P1073) and among host computers (IEEE P1157). The authors´ model is intended to be a formal logic for the conceptual schema, and does not specify any particular implementation. They give a syntax in terms of abstract data records linked by pointers and also a semantics based on naive category theory
Keywords :
data structures; formal logic; medical computing; programming languages; standards; IEEE committees; abstract data records; conceptual schema; device to host computer communication; formal logic; language semantics; language syntax; medical data communications; medical information processing; naive category theory; Biomedical monitoring; Computer displays; Computerized monitoring; Data communication; Electric shock; Information processing; Mathematics; Patient monitoring; Statistics; Workstations;
Conference_Titel :
Bioengineering Conference, 1989., Proceedings of the 1989 Fifteenth Annual Northeast
Conference_Location :
Boston, MA
DOI :
10.1109/NEBC.1989.36764
