Schilders L, Segers D
EUCLIDES Foundation International, Zellik, Belgium.
Stud Health Technol Inform. 1993;6:149-55.
Assessment of the current medical edi environment learns that "old" interchange formats are being used to represent information of highly complex and quickly evolving nature. Whenever the domain requirements are translated into acceptable messages according to these interchange format specifications, system developers use the latest technologies to implement the messages towards the distorted view imposed by the interchange format constraints. This situation, combined with the fact of coexistence of several interchange formats and the urgent need for more standardised message types, led to the specification of a new meta-syntax, supporting easy message definition and allowing the data-driven conversion between multiple interchange formats. As such, and supported by the development of interchange format independent message descriptions, it may become a tool to support the medical edi needs of the future.
对当前医学电子数据交换（EDI）环境的评估发现，“旧的”交换格式正被用于表示高度复杂且快速演变的信息。每当根据这些交换格式规范将领域需求转换为可接受的消息时，系统开发人员都会使用最新技术来实现这些消息，以应对交换格式约束所带来的扭曲视图。这种情况，再加上多种交换格式并存的事实以及对更标准化消息类型的迫切需求，导致了一种新的元语法的规范，该元语法支持轻松的消息定义，并允许在多种交换格式之间进行数据驱动的转换。因此，在独立于交换格式的消息描述的发展支持下，它可能成为满足未来医学EDI需求的一种工具。
