Patient Record Architecture

Postal Address	Laguna Beach CA USA
E-mail	slboyer@ibm.net

Sandy Boyer - Sandy Boyer is a pharmacist with many years of experience as a content expert involved in development of drug information. After participating in conversion of a large, highly structured drug information text into SGML, she became interested in the potential for SGML (and later XML) to facilitate utilization and integration of clinical healthcare data and resource information in systems designed to improve quality of healthcare. She has been involved with the HL7 XML Technical Committee and Kona Editoral Group since their inception, and is a co-editor of the HL7 Document Patient Record Architecture (PRA). She is currently working as a consultant in the U.S. and Australia. She has spoken on document markup (including document analysis) and XML at national and international conferences, including Health Level 7, the American Medical Informatics Association (AMIA) and XML Europe.