Software tools for rapid development and customization of medical information systems

We present data modeling and code generation tools for easier and faster development and customization of electronic health record (EHR) based medical information systems (MIS). In development of MIS, it is usually necessary to create a large number of different, but somewhat similar, graphical user interface (GUI) forms and database tables corresponding to different medical data. This process can be inefficient and time consuming. Our software tools enable power users to define meta data models, from which the tools automatically generate database tables, data object model classes and several common components (input forms, selection components, components for tracking measured values, reporting profiles, access control configurations) for EHR-based MIS. While we first developed these tools for clinical and ambulatory MIS in Serbia, they can be used in other countries, due to the built-in flexibility and multi-language support.