MDHT Template Sub Project

Back to Structured Document Template Design Pilot

Overview

The goal of this pilot is to demonstrate how the Model-Driven Health Tools (MDHT) CDA Tools project can be used to design and implement CDA templates. This includes the generation of a published implementation guide and an EMF-based Java runtime API that supports programmatic production, consumption, and validation of CDA XML instances.

Project Status

• Milestone 1 -- February 26, 2010

* Completed UML model of all pilot conformance rules
* Generated implementation guide to PDF and Eclipse Help format (html)
* Generated Java runtime classes for creating, consuming, and validating CDA instances based on the pilot templates. Wrote small test Java program to demonstrate use.

• Next steps:

* Refine model representation for value sets
* Refine published implementation guide
* Expand example Java program to illustrate embedding TB Progress Note in a small application

Project Execution Phase

Use CDA Tools to design CDA templates for example use case

We will create all of the templates required by the template tool pilot use case. This includes creating classes for each template and specifying all conformance rules using property redefinitions, directed associations, and directly using OCL expressions (if necessary).

Project Delivery Phase

Generate published implementation guide in DITA format

By producing the DITA format, we can target multiple publication formats such as XHTML, Eclipse Help, and PDF.

Generate Java-based Runtime API

The template model will be transformed and ultimately imported into EMF. The EMF model will be used to produce Java source code.