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Schema for Patient Medical Record


Date:      Wed, 14 Mar 2001 14:41:54 -0500
From:      Jonathan Borden <jborden@mediaone.net>
To:        Starostina Olga <solga@unix1.sncc.lsu.edu>, xml-dev@lists.xml.org
Subject:   Re: patient info schema

[Responding to a question posted to XML-DEV]

There are (at least) two standards organizations developing XML DTDs for healthcare information, the ASTM's XML Healthcare subcommittee (http://www.astm.org) and HL7 (http://www.hl7.org). These standards efforts are being coordinated using an interoperable clinical header. HL7 has traditionally focussed on interapplication messaging protocols whereas ASTM has traditionally focused on documentation.

The ASTM architecture defines a common clinical document format containing a clinical header and body. The body content models generally specify text (#PCDATA), XHTML Basic content (%Flow.mix) or reference external documents using XLinks.

http://www.openhealth.org/ASTM/ contains a number of documents and DTDs related to the recent E31.25 draft ballot. The XChart application implements the 2001-2-18 draft ballot ASTM standard internally (though the web based demo displays documents as XHTML) -- this is to be released as open source once we can package the 2001-2-18 mods for distribution.

We expect that future versions of this standard will specify XML Schema -- which is what you did ask about -- as well as other *standardized* schemata.

Jonathan Borden The Open Healthcare Group http://www.openhealth.org

Co-Chair, ASTM E31.25 XML Healthcare DTDs


Prepared by Robin Cover for The XML Cover Pages archive. QQ


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