Friday, 16 June
0900
- 1230
XML & health care
(For:
all delegates)
Chair:
Joachim Dudeck, Head
of department, Institute of Medical Informatics, University
of Giessen, Germany
Healthcare information is, to a very large extent, exchanged
and stored as unstructured or slightly structured text
that can be processed and retrieved with certain difficulties
only. XML opens a completely new perspective in document
handling and processing and message transmission in
healthcare. First applications are now operational.
In this session, experiences with and future perspectives
of XML applications in healthcare will be presented
and demonstrated.
HL7 Patient Record Architecture
(PRA)
Sandy
Boyer, Consultant and drug information specialist,
USA; Liora Alschuler,
Consultant and writer, The Word Electric, USA
The emerging HL7 Patient Record Architecture (PRA)
standard for encoding of patient record documents
promises to provide a vendor-neutral, platform-independent
means of exchanging clinical healthcare information
from a wide variety of sources. DTDs have been balloted
for the PRA Header (metadata) and Level One of the
architecture, which are based on HL7 Reference Information
Model (RIM) semantics. The PRA is receiving significant
interest from healthcare software vendors and was
a fundamental feature of a prototype interoperability
demo at HIMSS 1999 and 2000
XML as a vehicle for the exchange
of Electronic Patient Records - A status report from
the SynEx project
Benjamin
Jung, Research Assistant, Trinity College
Dublin, Ireland; Jane
Grimson, Associate Professor, Trinity College
Dublin, Ireland
This paper outlines problems, experiences and solutions
from schemata mapping of heterogeneous and distributed
databases using XML/XSL. It furthermore describes
one practical solution within the area of Electronic
Patient Records. Here, XML is used to wrap the data
in an easy maintainable and accessible format and
XSL provides mapping and presentation rules.
XML data warehousing for browser-based
electronic health records
Dave
Nurse, Head of Research, CSW Informatics
Ltd, UK; John Chelsom,
Managing Director, CSW Informatics Ltd, UK
The
Electronic Casenote Folder is designed as a clinical
tool to be used by clinicians and staff who directly
support the clinician in patient care. Patient records
are created and maintained as XML documents within
an XML database.
The impact of an XML repository
in the development of XML messages
Joachim
Dudeck, Head of department, Institute of
Medical Informatics, University of Giessen, Germany;
Udo Altmann, Chief
Scientist, Institute of Medical Informatics University
of Giessen, Germany
Without
common semantic definitions, there is no guarantee
that senders and receives will interpret content in
the same way. As such definitions are not provided
by DTD's or schemas, they have to be defined in external
databases, such as tag repositories. Without such
repositories, no standardisation of messages or documents
will be really possible. In the described German project,
the semantic content of a repository using the xDT
proprietary standard is transferred into an XML repository
and is used to establish XML messages for the communication
between physicians offices and hospital information
systems. Problems of generalisation and specialisations
will be described. The repository will be available
on the Internet to improve and speed up the maintenance
of the repository and to give the user continuous
access to the newest versions. First experiences with
this approach will be described and demonstrated.
Using
XML for flexible data entry in health care - example
use for pathology
Ralf
Schweiger, Scientist, Institute of Medical
Informatics University of Giessen, Germany; Ali
Gerhard Tafazzoli, Scientist, Institute of Medical
Informatics University of Giessen, Germany; Additional
author: Joachim Dudeck,
Head of department, University Giessen, Germany
The
proliferation of front ends that are well adapted
to local documentation needs as well as the integration
of disparate data sources are an important precondition
for linking healthcare parties to existing information
infrastructures. The given data entry architecture
proposes an elegant solution to this problem by using
xml and other standard technologies.
Designing
XML-based applications for Windows
Frank
Boumphrey, Vice President, HTML Writers
guild, USA
Designing
XML-based applications for Windows Frank Boumphrey,
Vice President, HTML Writers guild, USA This paper
presents an argument for using MSXML COM object for
the development of XML-based Windows applications.
It discusses when XML (v. RADBMS) should be used,
and looks at the practical example of developing a
front to an XML based medical records system. When
VB programmers look to XML for the solution to their
data storage problems, we will know that XML has truly
arrived!
0900
- 1230
XML & eBusiness: content
& knowledge management
(For: business implementers)
Chair:
Nick Arnold, Director
of Strategic Business Consulting, iMediation, USA
Content
management and transformation have always been at
the center of standards activity. The explosion of
content and the need to manage, mine and leverage
information assets are illustrated through a series
of case studies and success stories.
Taking content syndication a
step further using ICE
Adam
Souzis, Co-Founder & Chief Strategist,
Kinecta Corporation, USA
This
presentation will explain how the ICE protocol is
impacting online syndication, enabling new business
models for companies in virtually any industry. It
will also provide examples of how successful companies
are using applications based on ICE to syndicate content
today.
XML for powering business on
the Web: case studies
Bruce
Sharpe, Chief Technology Officer, SoftQuad
Software Inc, Canada
XML
is dramatically changing the way businesses interact
with customers, with employees, with suppliers. This
presentation provides case studies showing how it
is being adopted today to improve the management,
delivery and use of information.
XML, wireless Web and the future
of eBusiness
Jeremy
Sindall, European Vice President, the e-content
company, United kingdom
Customer
presentations will show how companies are transforming
not only their web content, but all of their corporate
information to create a unique and personalised experience
for each customer, employee and business partner.
This produces a dynamic new environment that is transforming
traditional business models forever and providing
powerful competitive advantages, efficient use and
re-use, and generating new profit models.
Make it personal: using XML
to customize Web sites
Matthew
Price, Director of Market Strategy, Art
Technology Group, UK
The
facts remain - true eBusiness success depends on the
management of customer relationships online. This
presentation explores how XML can be used to manage
those relationships by gathering and storing information
about individual customers so that the right information
can be delivered to the right individual in a more
personalized manner at the right time.
0900
- 1230
Graphics on the Web (cont'd)
(For: business implementers
& technical
implementers)
Chair:
Chris Lilley, Graphics
Activity Lead, W3C, France; Dieter
Weidenbrück, CEO, ITEDO Software, Germany
WebCGM
and SVG are the new web standards for web graphics.
This track provides in-depth information about both
formats, including a technical comparison and case
studies. You should attend this track if you are interested
in graphics, hotspots on graphics, or links between
graphics and text.
An in-depth look at SVG
Jon
Ferraiolo, Advanced Technology Group, Adobe Systems,
USA
Scalable
Vector Graphics (SVG) is the emerging W3C language
for rich 2D graphics expressed in XML for use in Web
browsers. W3C members defining SVG include Adobe,
Apple, Autodesk, Corel, Hewlett-Packard, IBM, INSO,
Macromedia, Microsoft, Netscape, Opera, Quark, Sun
Microsystems, Visio and Xerox. This session presents
an in-depth description of SVG's graphics features,
its use in creating interactive and dynamic Web pages,
and its integration and compatibility with other Web
technologies, such as XML, CSS, DOM and SMIL.
Strategies for effective use
of intelligent graphics in Web applications
John
C Gebhardt, Vice President, Product Architecture
and Strategy, Micrografx, Inc, USA; Greg
Gallant, Senior Systems Architect, Micrografx,
Inc, USA
Graphics-intensive
Web applications may be deployed in a variety of ways
using a variety of standards. This paper explores
the various options and provides practical guidance
to managers and implementors interested in using the
new graphics standards to create intelligent graphics
applications.
SVG: putting XML in the picture
John
McKeown, Research Student, Trinity College
Dublin, Ireland; Jane
Grimson, Associate Professor, Trinity College
Dublin, Ireland
This
paper outlines an approach to generating SVG images
containing dynamic content. The generation process
produces the SVG image using an SVG template that
describes the image, and references external information
sources. These external information sources provide
the dynamic content used in the generated image, and
may include delimited text files, JDBC/ODBC database
queries, or URLs. Applications of this approach are
described to illustrate its usefulness.
SVG support in ILOG JViews component
suite
E
Tissandier, Software Engineer, ILOG SA, France;
C Jolif, R&D Software
Engineer, ILOG S A, France
As
part of the SVG working group, ILOG is doing an implementation
of SVG in the ILOG JViews Component Suite: ILOG's
Java libraries for creating rich GUI including smart
maps, workflow and network diagrams, and scheduling
charts. The presentation will explain how this implementation
was done, and how JViews users can take advantages
of SVG.
0900
- 1230
Product implementation
(For: technical implementers)
Chair:
Simon Watts, Managing
Consultant, OpenMIND Consulting, UK
Delegate
beware! This session has implementors and vendors
talking technically about nifty ways to use XML and
available products. No marketing pitches, just the
technical scoop. If you're in the process of implementing
XML, this might be the perfect place to ask questions!
Fabula: bi-lingual, multi-media,
childrens storybook software based on XML and Mozilla
Eoin
Campbell, Technical Director, XML Workshop
Ltd, Ireland; Brian King,
Software Engineer, XML Workshop Ltd, Ireland
Mozilla
(Netscape 5.0) provides an excellent platform on which
to develop cross-platform XML applications. The talk
will focus on the technical aspects of the Fabula
implementation, including the implementation strategies,
the technical architecture, shortcomings identified
in both XML-related standards and Mozilla, and future
directions.
XML and XSL from servers to
cel-phones: a new Internet content model
Ramin
Firoozye, CEO, Activare Software, USA
XML
and XSL stylesheet technologies can be used to simplify
web-content delivery. The same content can be generated
once, and delivered on-demand to desktop browsers,
PDAs, cel-phones, set-top boxes, videogame consoles,
and various Internet appliances. This talk presents
the (Activare Software developed HXP high-performance
parser and XSL processing engine) technology and architecture
needed to support XML and XSL on both high-performance
servers as well as embedded into a new-generation
of Internet clients.
XSLT Virtual Machine
Anguel
Novoselsky, Principal Member of Technical
Staff, Oracle Corporation, CORE and XML, USA;
K Karun, Project Lead, Oracle Corporation, CORE
and XML, USA
Long
processing time becomes a limitation for commercial
enterprise Web-based applications dealing with XML
data. This presentation describes an alternative approach
to overcome this limitation - an XSLT Virtual Machine
(XSLTVM). The XSLTVM is the software implementation
of a "CPU" designed to run compiled XSLT code. The
first section includes information on the semantics
and architecture of the XSLTVM; the second section
describes in details some of the XSLTVM instructions.
Examples illustrating the compilation of XSLT into
XSLTVM instructions are included also.
Informix XML datablades
Paul
Brown, Chief Plumber, Informix Software,
USA
An Object-Relational DBMS is an extensible DBMS. XML
is the Extensible Markup Language. In this talk, you
will learn what happens when the most advanced data
management technology in the world, and the most advanced
Internet technology collides. In a nutshell, you will
see how easy it is to get XML into an ORDBMS, how
easy it is to get it out, and how the ORDBMS lets
you 'shake XML all about'.
0900
- 12 30
XML & transformations
(For:
technical implementers)
Chair:
François Chahuneau,
General Manager, AIS S A, France
This
session looks at the exploding number of applications
for transformation technology, with particular emphasis
on the use of XSLT.
XML transformations: the key
to success in eBusiness solutions
Mark
Colan, XML Technologist, IBM, USA
Does
the growing number of XML vocabularies represent industry
fragmentation that will subvert the XML standard?
If your company customizes its XML information to
its internal needs, can it still participate in business-to-business
applications using standard vocabularies? This talk
will discuss the growing importance of XML transformations,
introduce XSL programming and tools, and present the
architecture of real-world eBusiness solutions using
XML and XSL.
On levels of model transformation
Mikaël
Peltier, PhD student, CNET DIH/HDM/DEI,
France; François
Ziserman, Engineer, CNET DIH/HDM/DEI, France;
Additional author: Jean
Bézivin, Professor, Université de
Nantes, LRSG, France
The
presentation offers a two-space framework based on
abstract and concrete levels to handle model transformation.
XSLT is used as the central transformation tool since
XML is becoming the common and standard projection
for models of any kind.
Text analysis tools for XML
documents using XSLT and Javabeans
Karthik
Jayaraman & Alexander
Nakhimovsky, Associate Professor, Computer
Science Dpt, Colgate University, USA
The
authors present a suite of text analysis tools within
a customizable Web application that uses XSLT and
Java beans for text processing of arbitrary complexity.
Business applications made easy
Daniel
Rivers-Moore, Director of New Technologies,
RivCom, UK
The
XML family of standards makes possible some exciting
new approaches to application development. This presentation
describes an approach to application design based
on simple, generic XML data structures and series
of XSLT transformations. The approach was developed
by the recently completed European XML/EDI Pilot Project,
and makes possible the building of powerful, multi-lingual,
configurable, distributed software applications.
1430
- 1540
Closing
keynote plenary
Chair:
Pamela Gennusa, Conference
Chair, UK
The
closing keynote speakers bring the conference to a
conclusion with reflections on the week and a look
ahead to the future.
The Promised Land of XML: how close
are we and will we get there?
Mike Rogers , Senior Director of Global Engineering Services, Sun Microsystems, USA
The promise of XML as an open, vendor-neutral, platfrom-neutral
standard for web data has led to unprecedented activity
across the industry. For the last 3 years, XML champions
have been warning that there is still much to be done.
Mike will scour XML Europe for all the latest information
and will present a perspective on the promise of XML
and how close we are (or aren't) to achieving it.
The state of XML
Edd Dumbill,
Managing Editor, XML.com, O'Reilly & Associates,
Inc., UK
Edd
Dumbill presents an assessment of the state of the
XML industry, including key developments in core standards,
eBusiness vocabularies, and XML software support,
from application servers to browsers. He will also
survey the cutting edge of XML development and highlight
the important developments to come in the second half
of 2000.
1610
- 1720
XML
in health care (cont'd)
(For: all delegates)
Chair:
Joachim Dudeck, Head
of department, Institute of Medical Informatics, University
of Giessen, Germany
Healthcare
information is, to a very large extent, exchanged and
stored as unstructured or slightly structured text that
can be processed and retrieved with certain difficulties
only. XML opens a completely new perspective in document
handling and processing and message transmission in
healthcare. First applications are now operational.
In this session, experiences with and future perspectives
of XML applications in healthcare will be presented
and demonstrated.
XML in healthcare: the potential
and the reality
Sean
Brennan, Consultant in Healthcare Informatics,
UK
An
overview of the actual and potential uses of XML in
the delivery of healthcare in the NHS including: Electronic
Patient and Electronic Health Records (EPR and EHR),
communications between primary health clinicians and
hospital clinicians, and as a vehicle for capturing
and accessing clinical knowledge.
XML for blood ordering, investigation
ordering and lab results
Andy Hadley , IT Strategy Manager, Poole Hospital NHS Trust, UK; Cheryl Hutchings , IT Projects Manager, Poole Hospital NHS Trust, UK
Many
Hospitals are inundated with clinical significantly
paper that are frequently illegible and misfiled (a
polite description of lost). Using XML technologies
Poole Hospital are exploring techniques for electronic
filing of reports to caesnotes, status tracking of
investigation requests and ordering control.
Analysing XML health records
Andrew Roberts,
Consultant Orthopaedic Surgeon, Robert Jones &
Agnes Hunt Orthopaedic Hospital, UK
The
use of XML in the delivery of health care information
has been previously presented. The unique advantage
of XML over other methods of document management is
the ability to conduct cross document searches for
healthcare information. Our analysis methods will
be demonstrated in the context of healthcare.
Using XML to share clinical
Information with the local community
Simon Pearson,
Webmaster to The National Path.Finder Consortium,
and Local Path.Finder Author, The Wirral Hospitals
NHS Trust, UK
XML for clinical coding,
discharge summaries and bronchoscopy reports
Mansel Chamberlain,
Business Systems Manager, Royal Brompton Hospital,
UK
The
Trust has a policy of buying 'best of breed' systems
to meet the particular needs of individual departments.
This allows departments to use the application that
best meets their individual requirements. However,
this policy also creates a need for inter connectivity
with the main hospital administrative systems. The
IS role is to deliver solutions that link to the main
systems for the patient demographic information, respond
the changes in the 'parent' databases and return clinical
data from the satellite systems to repositories that
will feed the electronic patient record. The heavy
research workload within the hospital creates a need
to enable researchers to analyse large amounts of
data. XML is the way IS will deliver a major research
tool as a by-product of the normal activity of the
hospital, as well as delivering the electronic patient
record and electronic health record.
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