Pitty D, Gordon C, Reeves P, Capey A, Vieyra P, Rickards T
Healthcare Informatics Team, Royal Brompton Hospital NHS Trust, London, UK.
Stud Health Technol Inform. 1997;43 Pt A:329-33.
The authors are concerned that, although popular, SGML (Standard Generalized Markup Language) is only one approach to capturing, storing, viewing and exchanging healthcare information and does not provide a suitable paradigm for solving most of the problems associated with paper based patient record systems. Although a discussion of the relative merits of SGML, HTML (HyperText Markup Language) may be interesting, we feel such a discussion is avoiding the real issues associated with the most appropriate way to model, represent, and store electronic patient information in order to solve healthcare problems, and therefore the medical informatics community should firstly concern itself with these issues. The paper substantiates this viewpoint and concludes with some suggestions of how progress can be made.
作者们担心，虽然标准通用标记语言（SGML）很流行，但它只是一种用于捕获、存储、查看和交换医疗保健信息的方法，并没有为解决与纸质病历系统相关的大多数问题提供合适的范例。虽然讨论SGML与超文本标记语言（HTML）的相对优点可能会很有趣，但我们认为这样的讨论回避了与以最合适的方式对电子患者信息进行建模、表示和存储以解决医疗保健问题相关的实际问题，因此医学信息学领域应首先关注这些问题。本文证实了这一观点，并最后提出了一些关于如何取得进展的建议。
