Overview
The XML in Healthcare track is a special path through the full XML Summer School curriculum for delegates with an interest in healthcare and allied services. Its starts with the three-day Hands-on Introduction to XML, sharing the same lectures as other delegates but with an alternative set of hands-on exercises. These use the cityEHR open source health records system (which is built using XML, XForms, XQuery and XSLT) and a mock-up of a Laboratory Information Management system. The exercises include manipulation of healthcare data using the HL7 CDA and ISO 13606 standards, export and import of data, integration using web APIs and the HL7 FHIR standard, clinical correspondence using office documents and diagnosis using OWL/XML ontologies and Description Logic Reasoning.
The final two days of the XML in Healthcare track follows the XForms in Action course, which lifts the covers on the cityEHR health records system, to reveal details of its implementation as an XForms application. There are also hands-on sessions with an AI Workbench (implemented using XForms) which is used for simple diagnosis problems using rule-based reasoning, Bayesian Belief Networks and Artificial Neural Networks.