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From: Towards plug-and-play integration of archetypes into legacy electronic health record systems: the ArchiMed experience

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Plug-and-play integration of archetypes into legacy EHR systems. In step (1), the form generator, using existing tools [25], parses the archetype formatted in the Archetype Description Language, which is shown here in a pseudo notation for reasons of space and simplicity. It then augments the archetype with the implicit constraints from the RM to create a comprehensive archetype. This allows attributes of the RM, which are not constrained in the archetype, to be included in the generated form. (2) From the comprehensive archetype, the EHR system form and a mapping table are generated. For each form component, the latter stores the path of its source archetype node. (3) The generated form is used to record documents and store them in the internal format of the EHR system. (4) The EHR extract generator uses the generated mapping table to transform documents from their internal format to an EHR extract that is compliant with the archetype and RM.

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