XML as standard for communicating in a document-based electronic patient record: A 3 years experiment

International Journal of Medical Informatics

Volumn 70, Issue 2-3, 2003, Pages 109-115

  Rassinoux, Anne Marie ^a   Lovis, Christian ^a   Baud, Robert ^a   Geissbuhler, Antoine ^a  

^a GENEVA UNIVERSITY HOSPITALS   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Electronic patient record; eXtensible Markup Language; Knowledge representation; Standards

Indexed keywords

PATIENT MONITORING; XML;

ELECTRONIC PATIENT RECORDS;

HEALTH CARE;

ARTICLE; COMPUTER LANGUAGE; COMPUTER SYSTEM; HUMAN COMPUTER INTERACTION; HYPERMEDIA; MEDICAL DOCUMENTATION; MEDICAL INFORMATION; MEDICAL RECORD; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

EID: 0042066365     PISSN: 13865056     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S1386-5056(03)00045-5     Document Type: Article

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