A hyperdocument architecture for cardiac catheterisation documents

Medical documents consists of heterogeneous types of data generated from different diagnostic and monitoring modalities. Advances in multimedia technology have made possible the capturing, storage and visualisation of such multimedia documents. By incorporating hypermedia concept into the structure of the document, the physician is able to retrieve and view relevant information non-linearly via the hyperlinks embedded within the document. Central to the computerisation of such documents is the design of a suitable hypermedia document architecture which structures and organises the information inherent in the documents. This paper presents a hyperdocument architecture of a specific type of medical document, the cardiac catheterisation record, and a prototype multimedia document system which had been implemented on a PC-based platform