《Plug and Play XML》.pdf

Downloaded from on May 23, 2012 - Published by Journal of the American Medical Informatics Association Volume 9 Number 1 Jan / Feb 2002 37 Application of Information Technology Plug-and-Play XML: A Health Care Perspective RALF SCHWEIGER, PHD, SIMON HOELZER, MD, UDO ALTMANN, MD, JOERG RIEGER, JOACHIM DUDECK, MD A b s t r a c t The application of XML (Extensible Markup Language) is still costly. The authors present an approach to ease the development of XML applications. They have developed a Web based framework that combines existing XML resources into a comprehensive XML application. The XML framework is model-driven, i.e., the authors primarily design XML document models (XML schema, document type definition), and users can enter, search, and view related XML documents using a Web browser. The XML model itself is flexible and might be composed of existing model standards. The second part of the paper relates the approach of the authors to some problems frequently encountered in the clinical documentation process. J Am Med Inform Assoc. 2002;9:37–48. Three problems of the clinical documentation process structure of a document explicitly2,3 and to identify motivated our work. The intention of this paper is to meaningful elements in textual narrations.2 outline the possible contribution of XML (Extensible The second problem is the flexibility of a document’s Markup Language) to the solution of these problems structure. Health care experts agree that the transition and to address some implementation issues. from unstructured textual data to