The Development of Medical Markup Language Version 4 as a Clinical Document Exchange Format for Nationwide EHR Systems

Shinji Kobayashi; Naoto Kume; Kenji Araki; Hiroyuki Yoshihara

doi:10.1007/s10916-020-1524-x

The Development of Medical Markup Language Version 4 as a Clinical Document Exchange Format for Nationwide EHR Systems

J Med Syst. 2020 Feb 17;44(4):69. doi: 10.1007/s10916-020-1524-x.

Authors

Shinji Kobayashi¹, Naoto Kume², Kenji Araki³, Hiroyuki Yoshihara²

Affiliations

¹ Department of Electronic Health Record, Graduate School of Medicine, Kyoto University, 15, Shimogamo-Morimoto-cho, Sakyoku, Kyoto, 600-8815, Japan. kobayashi.shinji.5s@kyoto-u.ac.jp.
² Department of Electronic Health Record, Graduate School of Medicine, Kyoto University, 15, Shimogamo-Morimoto-cho, Sakyoku, Kyoto, 600-8815, Japan.
³ The Institutional Research Department for Hospital Management, University of Miyazaki, Miyazaki, Japan.

PMID: 32072322
DOI: 10.1007/s10916-020-1524-x

Abstract

Medical Markup Language (MML) is a standard format for exchange of healthcare data among healthcare providers. Following the last major update (version 3), we developed new modules and discussed the requirements for the next major updates. Subsequently, in 2016 we released MML version 4 and used it to obtain clinical data from healthcare providers for a nationwide electronic health records (EHR) system. In this article we provide an overview of this major update of MML version 4 and discuss its interoperability for clinical data.

Keywords: Electronic health records; MML; Standardization; XML.

MeSH terms

Humans
Medical Record Linkage / standards*
Medical Records Systems, Computerized / organization & administration*
Medical Records Systems, Computerized / standards
Programming Languages*

Grants and funding

16K12523/Japan Society for the Promotion of Science