The role of markup for enabling interoperability in health informatics

Frontiers in Physiology

Volumn 6, Issue MAY, 2015, Pages

  McKeever, Steve ^a,b   Johnson, David ^c  

^a UPPSALA UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

^b ITMO UNIVERSITY   (Russian Federation)

^c IMPERIAL COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Execution environments; Interoperability; Patient data; Physiological modeling; XML

Indexed keywords

BIOMEDICAL ENGINEERING; COMPUTER MODEL; COMPUTER PROGRAM; DATA ANALYSIS SOFTWARE; DNA METHYLATION; ELECTRONIC MEDICAL RECORD; HEALTH CARE ACCESS; HEALTH CARE UTILIZATION; INFORMATION PROCESSING; INFORMATION SYSTEM; INTERNET; INTEROPERABILITY; MARKUP LANGUAGE; MEDICAL INFORMATICS; REVIEW; TAXONOMY;

EID: 84930681935     PISSN: None     EISSN: 1664042X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3389/fphys.2015.00152     Document Type: Review

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