All,
I am in the final stages of a PhD in Applied Information Security and am investigating different options for demonstrating my research offering. I have had a interest in Medical Informatics, in particular EHR’s, for some time now. To give you a very brief synopsis of my research: I have developed an abstract access control module which uses logic (OWL + Rules) to determine access to protected information. I then use the decision results to expose or hide relevant portions of a semi-structured document (in this case XML).
I am asking for some help in the form of direction from this group if that is possible. What I am ideally searching for as a case study is an academic and industry backed EHR. OpenEHR clearly satisfies this requirement. What I need for the case study is an XML document containing information which can be semantically described (in my case using OWL). From initial examination of OpenEHR, this is all possible. I realise that there are complexities to OpenEHR that are far beyond the scope of what I need. My attention was drawn to the “Top-Level Information Structures” like EHR, EHR-Extract, demographic etc. and the fact that these could be used as separate documents in a document oriented system.
Is there a sample XML Schema and corresponding instance file available for any of these Top-Level Information Structures? If so, can you direct me to their location? If I have posted to the incorrect group here, can you point me in the right direction to the group of people who may be able to help?
I would really appreciate any help you can offer me on this.
Kind regards,
Brian. |
Brian,
I am a relative newcomer to openEHR, so you’ll probably get a better answer from others.
I am aware of schemas at the following address that might be part of what you need:
http://www.openehr.org/releases/1.0.2/its/XML-schema/index.html
Jeff
Ocean will provide an instance or two. Will email you off line.
Cheers, Sam