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The Development of Medical Markup Language Version 4 as a Clinical Document Exchange Format for Nationwide EHR Systems

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Medical Markup Language (MML) is a standard format for exchange of healthcare data among healthcare providers. Following the last major update (version 3), we developed new modules and discussed the requirements for the next major updates. Subsequently, in 2016 we released MML version 4 and used it to obtain clinical data from healthcare providers for a nationwide electronic health records (EHR) system. In this article we provide an overview of this major update of MML version 4 and discuss its interoperability for clinical data.

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The research and development processes in this article were supported by the MedXML consortium, and funded by the JSPS KAKENHI (Grant number 16K12523)

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This research project was funded by the JSPS KAKENHI (Grant number 16K12523).

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  1. Department of Electronic Health Record, Graduate School of Medicine, Kyoto University, 15, Shimogamo-Morimoto-cho, Sakyoku, Kyoto, 600-8815, Japan

    Shinji Kobayashi, Naoto Kume & Hiroyuki Yoshihara

  2. The Institutional Research Department for Hospital Management, University of Miyazaki, Miyazaki, Japan

    Kenji Araki

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Kobayashi, S., Kume, N., Araki, K. et al. The Development of Medical Markup Language Version 4 as a Clinical Document Exchange Format for Nationwide EHR Systems. J Med Syst 44, 69 (2020). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10916-020-1524-x

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