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Electronic Medical Records (EMRs) are complex data models and developing medical data import/export functions is a difficult, prone to error and hard to maintain process. Bidirectional transformation (bx) theories have been developed within the last decades as a mechanism for relating different data models and keeping them consistent with each other. We believe that medical record exchange is a promising industrial application case for applying bx theories and may resolve some of the interoperability challenges in this domain. We introduce BXE2E, a proof-of-concept framework which frames the medical record interoperability challenge as a bx problem, providing a real world application of bx theories. During our experiments, BXE2E reliably transforms medical records correctly and with reasonable performance. With BXE2E, we demonstrate a method of reducing the difficulty of creating and maintaining such a system as well as reducing the number of errors that may result. BXE2E’s design allows it to be easily integrated to other data systems that could benefit from bx theories.
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Ho, J., Weber, J., Price, M. (2017). BXE2E: A Bidirectional Transformation Approach for Medical Record Exchange. In: Guerra, E., van den Brand, M. (eds) Theory and Practice of Model Transformation. ICMT 2017. Lecture Notes in Computer Science(), vol 10374. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-61473-1_11
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