I was absolutley fascinated by an article in last weeks' New Scientists
about XML, particularly the potential for medical applications (e.g
records) & its ability to allow processing of data within XML tags (e.g
numerical data - but also why not READ codes or other structured data). I
suspect some of you may already know a lot about XML, but if anyone's
interested I'll precis the NS article here... You may find something on the
NS web site too (it's excellent)
can you imagine :
<XML v1.1>
<HEADER>medical record</HEADER>
<TEXT>blurb</TEXT>
<READ>C201</READ>
</XML v1.1>
GP<> records, stylesheets for different (multi-axial) record views....
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+ Dr Alan Hassey, [log in to unmask] +
+ RCGP Health Informatics Group & JCG +
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