Title: The MIC/MIE model for generating multimedia patient folders

Authors: Fernando Ferri, Fabrizio L. Ricci, Domenico M. Pisanelli

Addresses: Instituto di Studi sulla Ricerca e Documentazione Scientifica, Consiglio Nazionale delle Ricerche, Via Cesare de Lollis 12, 00185 Roma, Italy. ' Instituto di Studi sulla Ricerca e Documentazione Scientifica, - Consiglio Nazionale delle Ricerche, Via Cesare de Lollis 12, 00185 Roma, Italy. ' Instituto di Tecnologie Biomediche, Consiglio Nazionale delle Ricerche, Via Morgagni 30 E, 00161 Roma, Italy

Abstract: The patient folder is the main source of documentation on the patient|s health state. It is not a mere collection of information, but a set of heterogeneous documents accessed by different users having different goals (e.g. choice of a therapeutic strategy, quality assessment). In this paper, we present an information model – the MIC/MIE model – able to represent the heterogeneous kinds of data composing a patient folder. The MIC/MIE model is based on an object-oriented approach and supports the definition of a multimedia patient folder. It is flexible enough to be adapted to diverse clinical environments and it allows physicians to structure the information needed in their patient folder without employing a programming language. Finally, we show some features of the CADMIO system, a tool based on this model which can be employed for designing patient folder management systems.

Keywords: patient folders; object-oriented modelling; data modelling; multimedia.

DOI: 10.1504/IJHTM.1999.004529

International Journal of Healthcare Technology and Management, 1999 Vol.1 No.3/4, pp.301 - 316

Published online: 21 May 2004 *

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