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

• Published in: Journal of medical systems Vol. 44; no. 4; p. 69
• Main Authors: Kobayashi, Shinji, Kume, Naoto, Araki, Kenji, Yoshihara, Hiroyuki
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: New York Springer US 01.04.2020; Springer Nature B.V
• Subjects: Electronic health records; Electronic medical records; Format; Health care; Health Informatics; Health Sciences; Humans; Interoperability; Language; Medical Record Linkage - standards; Medical Records Systems, Computerized - organization & administration; Medical Records Systems, Computerized - standards; Medicine; Medicine & Public Health; Programming Languages; Statistics for Life Sciences; Transactional Processing Systems; MML; Electronic health records; XML; Standardization

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...