My presentation
"Dealing with the Electronic Patient Record variability: Object =
Oriented=20
XML"
Presented on the workshop "SGML/XML in Healthcare", May 18th 1998
accompanying the GCA SGML/XML Europe =B498 Conference Paris
is available at:
http://www.digitalairways.com/NiS/ParisXML98/
OOXML is new way to add behaviors to XML Documents: Much more powerfull=20
than Stylesheets & Much easier to build and maintain than core Java =
code.
Summary:
The Electronic Patient Record (EPR) is complex, loosely structured, =
highly=20
variable and unpredictable. It is therefore difficult to modelize.=20
Traditional systems do not fully satisfy the demand for an EPR for =
clinical=20
on-line use. The SGML-XML approach seems to satisfy the need of a data=20
model able to capture the full range of clinical information in a format =
still suitable for automatic handling.
Unfortunately, the navigation among the record components relies to date =
on=20
proposals that do not offer sufficient capabilities to deal with the EPR =
complexity and variability.
The Object Oriented XML that we propose, which considers each XML =
Element=20
as an object that comes with its methods, could considerably increase =
the=20
possibility of an XML document.