Authors:
Abderrazek Boufahja
1
and
Eric Poiseau
2
Affiliations:
1
Kereval / IHE-Europe, France
;
2
Inria Rennes / IHE-Europe, France
Keyword(s):
Model-based, Validation, Requirements, XML, Healthcare Standards, Schematron, Interoperability, Quality.
Related
Ontology
Subjects/Areas/Topics:
Artificial Intelligence
;
Biomedical Engineering
;
Collaboration and e-Services
;
Complex Systems Modeling and Simulation
;
Data Engineering
;
Design and Development Methodologies for Healthcare IT
;
e-Business
;
Electronic Health Records and Standards
;
Enterprise Information Systems
;
Evaluation and Use of Healthcare IT
;
Health Information Systems
;
Integration/Interoperability
;
Interoperability
;
Knowledge Management and Information Sharing
;
Knowledge-Based Systems
;
Ontologies and the Semantic Web
;
Sensor Networks
;
Simulation and Modeling
;
Software Agents and Internet Computing
;
Software and Architectures
;
Symbolic Systems
Abstract:
Nonconformity of healthcare implementations to the medical standards has become a real source of troubles and loss of interoperability between systems. Healthcare documents frequently contain inconsistent requirements related to the standards they must conform to. Few standards and methodologies exist to deal with complex requirements, and often they are only dedicated to some specific kinds of healthcare standards, like CDA, HL7 and DICOM. The complexity of standards and their constant evolution have made difficult the implementation of robust check methods and tools for healthcare documents. In this paper, we propose a novel model-based validation methodology, which allows enumerating and validating requirements related to healthcare documents that have XML based structure. Model-based methodology defined and specified in this paper allows checking any kind of requirements even for healthcare documents with complex standards' cascading. Experimentations of model based checking demo
nstrate that this method was highly effective in detecting inconsistencies, and orienting implementers of healthcare technologies.
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