An Effective Approach for Development of Regional Medical Information System Using XML Technology
Masayuki Honda, Takehiro Matsumoto, Yoshiyuki Nakayama, Hiroaki Sudo, Kazuo Yanase, Ryuichi Fujita · Medinfo 2007: Proceedings of the 12th World Congress on Health (Medical) Informatics; Building Sustainable Health Systems · 2007
The system proposed here accepts XML-documented patient records and transforms them into a common schema through the style sheet. Because we adopted an XML format, the users of this system will easily get the information exchanged among medical facilities. The characteristics of this system include; (1) automatic creation of an appropriate structure of database from the XML schema information for each hospital, enabling to store any records of XML format for which XML schema information is known in advance, (2) facilitation of a dynamic control of information flow by introducing an idea of standardized interface structure, (3) reduction of the costs at which regional medical information systems are built up and (4) increase of the number of hospitals sharing this DB of patient records by exploiting a common XML schema.