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JACIII Vol.16 No.1 pp. 42-47
doi: 10.20965/jaciii.2012.p0042
(2012)

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Ruby Implementation of the OpenEHR Specifications

Shinji Kobayashi* and Akimichi Tatsukawa**

*Department of Bioregulatory Medicine, Graduate School of Medicine, Ehime University, Shitsukawa, To-on city, Ehime 791-0295, Japan

**Department of Medical Informatics and Economics, Graduate School of Medicine, The University of Tokyo, Hongo 7-chome, Tokyo 113-8655, Japan

Received:
June 24, 2011
Accepted:
October 12, 2011
Published:
January 20, 2012
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Keywords:
electronic health records, openEHR, ISO/CEN 13606, Ruby, open-source software
Abstract
The openEHR project has developed specifications for future-proof interoperable Electronic Health Record (EHR) systems [1]. This project provides the specifications and implementation on which the ISO/CEN 13606 standards are based. The implementation has been formally described in Eiffel, C# and Java, but not in scripting languages (which are popular because of their higher efficiency and faster development). We have used the Ruby language to implement the openEHR specifications for the efficient development of new healthcare computing environments, and to investigate the universal applicability of these specifications. Our Ruby implementation covers almost all of the specifications and the Archetype Definition Language parser, and although some problems have emerged, most of them have been resolved. We are attempting to apply this platform to Ruby on Rails to obtain a rapid development environment for an EHR system.
Cite this article as:
S. Kobayashi and A. Tatsukawa, “Ruby Implementation of the OpenEHR Specifications,” J. Adv. Comput. Intell. Intell. Inform., Vol.16 No.1, pp. 42-47, 2012.
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