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C-warehousing: a Hl7 Cda-based Approach for the Secondary Use of Clinical Data

Fabrizio Pecoraro *
Daniela Luzi *
Fabrizio L. Ricci. Institute for Research on Population *
* and Social Policies, National Research Council, Via Palestro, 32–00185 – Rome, Italy (Portugal)
* and Social Policies, National Research Council, Via Palestro, 32–00185 – Rome, Italy (Portugal)
* and Social Policies, National Research Council, Via Palestro, 32–00185 – Rome, Italy (Portugal)

Abstract

This paper proposes a semi -automatic approach to extract information stored in a HL7 Clinical Document Architecture (CDA) and transform them to be loaded in a Data Warehouse for secondary purposes. It represents a suitable solution to faci litate the design and implementation of Extract, Transform and Load (ETL) tools that are considered the most time -consuming step of the data warehouse development process. The implementation of this framework is also proposed adopting the XSLT style sheet language that converts an original CDA XML -based document to an output XML document that can be easily loaded in the Data Warehouse. A case study is also provided to demonstrate the feasibility of the approach proposed.

Keywords

Data Warehousing; Dimensio nal Model; HL7 CDA; EXtensible Stylesheet Language Transformation (XSLT); XML
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Pecoraro, et al. (2016). C-warehousing: a Hl7 Cda-based Approach for the Secondary Use of Clinical Data. IADIS International Journal on Computer Science and Information Systems, 11(1). https://doi.org/10.33965/ijcsis_2016_v11i1_03
Pecoraro, et al. "C-warehousing: a Hl7 Cda-based Approach for the Secondary Use of Clinical Data." IADIS International Journal on Computer Science and Information Systems, vol. 11, no. 1, 2016. https://doi.org/10.33965/ijcsis_2016_v11i1_03
Pecoraro, et al. "C-warehousing: a Hl7 Cda-based Approach for the Secondary Use of Clinical Data." IADIS International Journal on Computer Science and Information Systems 11, no. 1 (2016). https://doi.org/10.33965/ijcsis_2016_v11i1_03