A language for generating HL7 reformatting programs

Author

Williams, Clay E.

Author_Institution

Columbia-Presbyterian Med. Center, New York, NY, USA

Volume

3

fYear

1997

fDate

30 Oct-2 Nov 1997

Firstpage

945

Abstract

Describes the design of a language for automatically generating programs to reformat HL7 messages. The clinical information system (CIS) at Columbia-Presbyterian Medical Center (CPMC) uses HL7 as a standard for data interchange. Collecting data from several different ancillaries necessitates reformatting the information to provide a uniform data representation for the CIS. We developed a system that automatically generates HL7 reformatters given a specification of operations that need to be performed on the third-party messages. This automatic generation significantly reduces the development time; we expect it to have a major impact on the maintenance of these programs as well

Keywords

ANSI standards; application generators; automatic programming; client-server systems; data structures; electronic data interchange; electronic messaging; high level languages; medical information systems; programming language semantics; software maintenance; Columbia-Presbyterian Medical Center; HL7 message reformatting; ancillaries; automatic programming; client-server system; clinical information system; data collection; data interchange standard; development time; operations specification; program generation language; semantics; software maintenance; syntax; uniform data representation; ANSI standards; Automatic programming; Clinical diagnosis; Computational Intelligence Society; Databases; Electronic mail; Encoding; Law; Medical services; Protocols;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society, 1997. Proceedings of the 19th Annual International Conference of the IEEE

Conference_Location

Chicago, IL

ISSN

1094-687X

Print_ISBN

0-7803-4262-3

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/IEMBS.1997.756498

Filename

756498