title: A generic interface to XML documents for guidance information.
abstract: We present a generic means of interfacing XML documents and clinical systems. The interface has been developed to allow the integration of best practice guidance information within prescribing systems. The interface has the following characteristics: (1) integrating developers do not have to interpret the structure of the XML documents, (2) inconsistencies between integrations are reduced, (3) the structure of the XML documents can change without affecting integration and (4) specification and documentation of the NDR document interface is within the interface itself.
authors.affiliation: Department of Computer Science and Computer Engineering, La Trobe University. lewisba@cs.latrobe.edu.au
authors.forename: Bryn
authors.initials: B
authors.lastname: Lewis
mesh_terms: D004282:Documentation; D006801:Humans; D008498:Medical Record Linkage; D016347:Medical Records Systems, Computerized; D017410:Practice Guidelines as Topic; D011381:Programming Languages; D012984:Software; D018511:Systems Integration