Expressing health care objects in XML

Author

Sokolowski, Rachael

fYear

1999

fDate

1999

Firstpage

341

Lastpage

342

Abstract

The patient medical record has been entirely focused on being in a form that is human readable and has ignored the requirements for machine processing. Health care information transaction standards, such as HL7 (Health Level 7) and EDI X12, have been almost entirely focused on machine interaction and have ignored the paper-based medical record. We need to reach a middle ground. Documents need to be in a form in which humans are able to locate, read and analyze and one in which machines are able to process. XML, combined with distributed object technologies has the potential to reach this middle ground; however, there are some challenges. These challenges relate to the state of clinical information in health care today

Keywords

distributed object management; health care; hypermedia markup languages; medical information systems; patient care; XML; clinical information; distributed object technologies; documents; health care information transaction standards; health care objects; machine interaction; patient medical record; Biomedical imaging; Clinical diagnosis; Hospitals; Humans; Laboratories; Medical services; SGML; Scheduling; Standardization; XML;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Enabling Technologies: Infrastructure for Collaborative Enterprises, 1999. (WET ICE '99) Proceedings. IEEE 8th International Workshops on

Conference_Location

Stanford, CA

ISSN

1080-1383

Print_ISBN

0-7695-0365-9

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/ENABL.1999.805224

Filename

805224