Improving interorganizational data interchange for drug development.
This paper presents a reengineered process that uses a markup language to do interorganizational data interchange between the participants in the US drug development process. The two major goals of this paper are to present (1) a detailed enough description of the reengineered version of this process that a practitioner will be able to use it and (2) a case-study of the reengineering of an interorganizational data interchange system that is applicable to other areas in health care. The detailed description is augmented with a companion web-site that shows all programs in a working prototype. The case-study uses an IDEF0 model to show the structure of benefits from markup standards for interorganizational data interchange.
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Department of Information Systems, University of Maryland, UMBC, Baltimore 21250, USA. canfield@umbc.edu
D003195:Computer Communication Networks; D017076:Computer-Aided Design; D019992:Databases as Topic; D004282:Documentation; D015195:Drug Design; D006801:Humans; D011381:Programming Languages; D012984:Software; D013810:Therapeutic Equivalency; D014481:United States; D014486:United States Food and Drug Administration