title: Medical records and electronic documents: a proposal.
abstract: This article presents a global view of our proposal for a medical information system of the future. This information system focuses on patient medical records management. As most of the existing systems, it proposes to store information from patient records in a database. But records capture is different: we propose to use weakly-structured documents. Such documents contain paragraphs with some specific constraints represented by XML tags. The end-user writes new information under the form of weakly-structured documents. An internal system translates theses documents into new data for the internal database. Such a document-based user interface provides much more freedom to the end-user, and certainly reduces the distance between the physicians' way of working and the capture system.
authors.affiliation: Medical Informatics Research Group, Laboratoire d'ingénierie des systèmes d'information (LISI), Lyon, France. frederique.laforest@insa-lyon.fr
authors.forename: F
authors.initials: F
authors.lastname: Laforest
authors.forename: A
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Flory
mesh_terms: D003628:Database Management Systems; D019992:Databases as Topic / Q000458:organization & administration*; D011307:Drug Prescriptions; D005544:Forecasting; D006801:Humans; D016347:Medical Records Systems, Computerized / Q000458:organization & administration* / Q000639:trends; D011381:Programming Languages; D014584:User-Computer Interface