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title: Standard Generalized Markup Language (SGML) and
eXtended Markup Language (XML): Enabling
Technologies for Healthcare

lecturer: Thomas Lincoln, MD, senior scientist, RAND, Santa Monica, California

additonal information

useful Websites

Further information about SGML (Standard Generalized Markup
Language)

The blending of Health Level 7 and SGML

The Health Level 7 site

Health Level 7 SGML special interest group

online papers

"A Gentle Introduction to SGML: TEI Guidelines for Electronic
Text Encoding and Interchange" (23 pages)

Lincoln, T. L., Essin, D. J.: "The Introduction of a New
Document Processing Paradigm into Health Care Computing--A
CAIT white paper," [Distributed over the Web in 1994.
]

offline references

Alschuler, L.: ABCD. SGML, Boston, ITP International Thomson
Computer Press, 1996.

Lincoln, T. L., Essin, D. J. and Ware, W. H.: "The Electronic Medical Record: A Challenge for Computer Science to Develop Clinically and Socially Relevant Computer Systems to Coordinate Data for Patient Care and Analysis," The Information Society, May/June 1993.

Karney, J.: "Tag Masters: Using tags to enforce style and content,
SGML and HTML let you create any type of document. PC
Magazine, Feb. 7, 1995 pp 144-171.

 


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