title: Medical markup language (MML) for XML-based hospital information interchange.
abstract: Medical Markup Language (MML) has been developed over the last 6 years in order to create a set of standards by which medical data, within Japan and hopefully worldwide, can be stored, accessed and exchanged in any number of physical locates. The MML version 2.21 is characterized by XML as meta-language, module structure for each document and enhancement of linking function among documents. Data exchange specification has been also added for query and reply. MML instances are composed of MML header and MML body. The MML header includes information for data transmission, while MML body includes several module items. One module item contains two elements: document information and module content. Nine MML module contents are defined at the present time: patient information, health insurance information, diagnosis information, lifestyle information, basic clinic information, particular information at the time of first visit, progress course information, surgery record information and clinical summary information.
authors.affiliation: Miyazaki Medical College Hospital, Japan.
authors.forename: K
authors.initials: K
authors.lastname: Araki
authors.forename: K
authors.initials: K
authors.lastname: Ohashi
authors.forename: S
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Yamazaki
authors.forename: Y
authors.initials: Y
authors.lastname: Hirose
authors.forename: Y
authors.initials: Y
authors.lastname: Yamashita
authors.forename: R
authors.initials: R
authors.lastname: Yamamoto
authors.forename: K
authors.initials: K
authors.lastname: Minagawa
authors.forename: N
authors.initials: N
authors.lastname: Sakamoto
authors.forename: H
authors.initials: H
authors.lastname: Yoshihara
mesh_terms: D019411:Clinical Laboratory Techniques; D003628:Database Management Systems; D003933:Diagnosis; D006751:Hospital Information Systems; D006801:Humans; D019146:Hypermedia; D016247:Information Storage and Retrieval; D007348:Insurance, Health; D007564:Japan; D008019:Life Style; D008498:Medical Record Linkage; D016347:Medical Records Systems, Computerized; D013514:Surgical Procedures, Operative; D018511:Systems Integration; D017432:Unified Medical Language System