title: Towards automatically generating graphical user interfaces from openEHR archetypes.
abstract: One of the main challenges in the field of Electronic Health Records (EHRs) is semantic interoperability. To utilise the full potential of interoperable EHR systems they have to be accepted by their users, the health care providers. Good Graphical User Interfaces (GUIs) that support customisation and data validation play a decisive role for user acceptance and data quality. This study investigates the use of openEHR archetypes to automatically generate coherent, customizable, data-validating GUIs. Using the Mozilla XML User Interface Language (XUL) a series of prototypes has been developed. The results show that the automatic generation of GUIs from openEHR archetypes is feasible in principle. Although XUL revealed some problems, the advantages of XML-based GUI languages are evident.
authors.affiliation: University of Freiburg, Department of Medical Informatics, Freiburg, Germany. thilo.schuler@gmail.com
authors.forename: Thilo
authors.initials: T
authors.lastname: Schuler
authors.forename: Sebastian
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Garde
authors.forename: Sam
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Heard
authors.forename: Thomas
authors.initials: T
authors.lastname: Beale
mesh_terms: D003626:Data Display; D006801:Humans; D016347:Medical Records Systems, Computerized; D012984:Software; D014584:User-Computer Interface