Integrated Medical Information and Decision-Support System development basedon shared metamodel definition

Abstract

Developing integrated knowledge-based decision-support systems with persistent storage for medical use usually requires creating multiple program modules with a non-generic implementation that includes a lot of duplicate and non-generalized components for describing the dataset the system is designed to operate on. As a solution, this paper proposes a semantic metamodel definition for medical information systems based on extensible entity and attribute descriptor format, along with an integration framework that enables projecting external data to common format, simplifies data access by generating schema definitions and APIs for accessing persistant storage, and eliminates the need for manual user interface development by procedurally generating form-based and list-based views.