Healthc Inform Res.  2012 Sep;18(3):171-177. 10.4258/hir.2012.18.3.171.

Development of Clinical Contents Model Markup Language for Electronic Health Records

• Yun JH
• Ahn SJ
• Kim Y

• KMID: 2229467
• DOI: http://doi.org/10.4258/hir.2012.18.3.171

Abstract

OBJECTIVES
To develop dedicated markup language for clinical contents models (CCM) to facilitate the active use of CCM in electronic health record systems.
METHODS
Based on analysis of the structure and characteristics of CCM in the clinical domain, we designed extensible markup language (XML) based CCM markup language (CCML) schema manually.
RESULTS
CCML faithfully reflects CCM in both the syntactic and semantic aspects. As this language is based on XML, it can be expressed and processed in computer systems and can be used in a technology-neutral way.
CONCLUSIONS
CCML has the following strengths: it is machine-readable and highly human-readable, it does not require a dedicated parser, and it can be applied for existing electronic health record systems.

Keyword

Clinical Information System; XML; Semantics

MeSH Terms

Computer Systems
Electronic Health Records
Electronics
Electrons
Semantics

Figure

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  Figure 1 Clinical contents model (CCM) structure.

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  Figure 2 Overview of clinical contents model markup language (CCML) structure.

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  Figure 3 Overview of clinical contents model markup language (CCML) structure.

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  Figure 4 An example of clinical contents model markup language: the content part of model "AbdominalPainAssert".

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  Figure 5 An example of clinical contents model markup language: the trail part of model "AbdominalPainAssert" (snippet).

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