title: The development of MML (Medical Markup Language) version 3.0 as a medical document exchange format for HL7 messages.
abstract: Medical Markup Language (MML), as a set of standards, has been developed over the last 8 years to allow the exchange of medical data between different medical information providers. MML Version 2.21 used XML as a metalanguage and was announced in 1999. In 2001, MML was updated to Version 2.3, which contained 12 modules. The latest version--Version 3.0--is based on the HL7 Clinical Document Architecture (CDA). During the development of this new version, the structure of MML Version 2.3 was analyzed, subdivided into several categories, and redefined so the information defined in MML could be described in HL7 CDA Level One. As a result of this development, it has become possible to exchange MML Version 3.0 medical documents via HL7 messages.
authors.affiliation: Graduate School of Medicine, Kumamoto University, Honjo 1-1-1, Kumamoto, Japan. guo@fc.kuh.kumamoto-u.ac.jp
authors.forename: Jinqiu
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Guo
authors.forename: Akira
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Takada
authors.forename: Koji
authors.initials: K
authors.lastname: Tanaka
authors.forename: Junzo
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Sato
authors.forename: Muneou
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Suzuki
authors.forename: Toshiaki
authors.initials: T
authors.lastname: Suzuki
authors.forename: Yusei
authors.initials: Y
authors.lastname: Nakashima
authors.forename: Kenji
authors.initials: K
authors.lastname: Araki
authors.forename: Hiroyuki
authors.initials: H
authors.lastname: Yoshihara
mesh_terms: D008491:Medical Informatics Applications; D008492:Medical Informatics Computing; D008498:Medical Record Linkage / Q000592:standards; D016347:Medical Records Systems, Computerized / Q000592:standards*; D011381:Programming Languages; D012985:Software Design