How to structure clinical information: a practical example.
In the frame of an European telemedicine project, we have designed and implemented an Andrology server that provides the user (e.g. physicians, students) with a set of anonymized andrology cases. Within this context we faced the problem of re-structuring existing clinical information sources and gained some experience on how much of the problem might be solved by the software engineer. This paper presents a method that partially automates the maintenance of the andrology case collection. Moreover, the potential benefit of XML for information representation will be discussed.
Schweiger
R
R
Department of Medical Informatics, University of Giessen, Germany.
Bürkle
T
T
Köhn
F
F
Dudeck
J
J
D006801:Humans; D019451:Information Management; D020407:Internet; D008297:Male; D016347:Medical Records Systems, Computerized; D012984:Software; D017216:Telemedicine; D014572:Urology