title: DbMap: improving database interoperability issues in medical software using a simple, Java-Xml based solution.
abstract: In medical software development, the use of databases plays a central role. However, most of the databases have heterogeneous encoding and data models. To deal with these variations in the application code directly is error-prone and reduces the potential reuse of the produced software. Several approaches to overcome these limitations have been proposed in the medical database literature, which will be presented. We present a simple solution, based on a Java library, and a central Metadata description file in XML. This development approach presents several benefits in software design and development cycles, the main one being the simplicity in maintenance.
authors.affiliation: Département d'Information Hospitalier, CHU Henri Mondor AP-HP, Créteil, France.
authors.forename: H
authors.initials: H
authors.lastname: Karadimas
authors.forename: F
authors.initials: F
authors.lastname: Hemery
authors.forename: P
authors.initials: P
authors.lastname: Roland
authors.forename: E
authors.initials: E
authors.lastname: Lepage
mesh_terms: D019992:Databases as Topic / Q000458:organization & administration; D006751:Hospital Information Systems; D011381:Programming Languages; D012984:Software; D012985:Software Design