XML technologies for the Omaha System: A data model, a Java tool and several case studies supporting home healthcare

Computer Methods and Programs in Biomedicine

Volumn 93, Issue 3, 2009, Pages 297-312

  Vittorini, Pierpaolo ^a   Tarquinio, Antonietta ^b   di Orio, Ferdinando ^a  

^a Dep of Internal Medicine and Public Health   (Italy)

^b Health District of Scafa (AUSL PE)   (Italy)

Author keywords

Java; Nursing; XML; XML schema

Indexed keywords

CENTRAL ITALY; CLASSIFICATION SYSTEMS; CLINICAL INFORMATION SYSTEMS; DATA MODELS; DISTRIBUTED COMPUTER ENVIRONMENTS; ELECTRONIC HEALTH RECORDS; FORMAL DEFINITIONS; HETEROGENEOUS SYSTEMS; HOME HEALTH CARES; HOME-CARE SERVICES; JAVA; JAVA APPLICATIONS; JAVA TOOLS; MEDICAL INFORMATIONS; PROBLEM-SOLVING; SEQUENCE OF EVENTS; WEB PAGES; XML DATA MODELS; XML SCHEMA; XML TECHNOLOGIES;

FOURIER TRANSFORMS; HYPERTEXT SYSTEMS; JAVA PROGRAMMING LANGUAGE; MEDICAL COMPUTING; NURSING; QUERY LANGUAGES; QUERY PROCESSING; RECORDS MANAGEMENT; SOFTWARE PROTOTYPING; TAXONOMIES; TERMINOLOGY; XML;

MARKUP LANGUAGES;

AGED; ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE; DECISION SUPPORT SYSTEMS, CLINICAL; HUMANS; INFORMATION STORAGE AND RETRIEVAL; INTERNET; ITALY; MALE; MEDICAL RECORDS SYSTEMS, COMPUTERIZED; NATURAL LANGUAGE PROCESSING; PATIENT CARE PLANNING; PROGRAMMING LANGUAGES; TELEMEDICINE;

EID: 59149103539     PISSN: 01692607     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.cmpb.2008.10.009     Document Type: Article

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