title: An electronic patient record implementation using clinical document architecture.
abstract: Electronic patient records (EPRs) provide the means for integrated access to patient information that may be scattered across dispersed healthcare organizations that, in general, use heterogeneous systems in order to support their internal functions. XML language and Clinical Document Architecture (CDA) provides a mechanism for defining, structuring, manipulating and visualizing patient medical data using the same semantics through web. In this paper, a prototype implementation of a web-based electronic patient record (EPR) system using XML for data format and CDA for defining and structuring patient clinical documents is presented.
authors.affiliation: Department of Informatics, University of Piraeus, Piraeus 185 34, Greece.
authors.forename: M
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Poulymenopoulou
authors.forename: G
authors.initials: G
authors.lastname: Vassilacopoulos
mesh_terms: D019992:Databases as Topic / Q000295:instrumentation / Q000458:organization & administration; D006801:Humans; D020407:Internet; D008498:Medical Record Linkage / Q000295:instrumentation / Q000379:methods; D016347:Medical Records Systems, Computerized / Q000295:instrumentation* / Q000458:organization & administration*; D011381:Programming Languages; D018511:Systems Integration