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ART-DECOR® Open Tools has been established in 2016 as an Entrepreneurial Company with limited liability (German Unternehmensgesellschaft mit beschränkter Haftung). It handles commercial aspects of the ART-DECOR® tool suite development and thus complements the ART-DECOR® Expert Group that drives the development. | ART-DECOR® Open Tools has been established in 2016 as an Entrepreneurial Company with limited liability (German Unternehmensgesellschaft mit beschränkter Haftung). It handles commercial aspects of the ART-DECOR® tool suite development and thus complements the ART-DECOR® Expert Group that drives the development. | ||
Revision as of 20:25, 10 December 2016
ART-DECOR in four bullet points:
- ...is an open-source tool and a methodology for various multidisciplinary stakeholders of healthcare information exchange
- ...supports comprehensive collaboration of team members within and between governance groups
- ...allows separation of concerns and different views on a single documentation for different domain experts
- ...supports creation and maintenance of HL7 templates (DSTU), value sets, data sets and more
What is ART-DECOR?
DECOR
DECOR (Data Elements, Codes, OIDs and Rules) is a methodology to capture the data needs of caregivers in terms of datasets and scenarios and use it to generate various artefacts: documentation, value sets, XML instance validation, generation and processing support, and test tools etc.
DECOR allows to iteratively improve recorded data definitions and link together input from various experts with different background knowledge: caregivers, terminologist, modellers, analysts and interface/communication specialists.
Informaticians
Modelers, analysts and interface / communication specialists add the technical representations as e.g. HL7 CDA templates, HL7 FHIR or IHE profiles. During that design phase and also in the following implementation and production phases the tool allows comprehensive validation and testing. |
The underlying DECOR data format is XML. The generation of HTML-, PDF- and Wiki-based documentation and XML-materials like validation and test environments is possible through a release and archive management function and transformations with stylesheets. The technical artefacts like templates and value sets can be used as input for test suites like IHE Gazelle ObjetcsChecker. Easy consistency checks across all artefacts can be achieved, CDA-based template definition can be verified to be standard conformant with the underlying CDA standard.
ART
ART (Advanced Requirement Tooling) is the DECOR user interface to create and adapt DECOR files, and to generate artefacts from DECOR files.
ART-DECOR Expert Group and our volunteers
The kernel activities around tool, concept, development and practice is done by the ART-DECOR Expert Group. We have to thank the many volunteers who contributed to the ART-DECOR tooling with testing, testing, testing, features requests and the right questions. Learn more about the individuals behind ART-DECOR.
ART-DECOR® Open Tools
ART-DECOR® Open Tools has been established in 2016 as an Entrepreneurial Company with limited liability (German Unternehmensgesellschaft mit beschränkter Haftung). It handles commercial aspects of the ART-DECOR® tool suite development and thus complements the ART-DECOR® Expert Group that drives the development.
Who benefits from ART-DECOR?
With ART-DECOR, experts with different backgrounds, such as healthcare professionals, terminologists, architects, designers and programmers together enter the necessary data, iteratively improve and connect those, all using the same underlying data store. ART-DECOR registers datasets, data types, value sets, identifications, codes, business rules, (HL7v3) templates and contains version management
Use it for what?
ART-DECOR can be used by:
- Regional and national networks for data exchange in healthcare.
- Larger healthcare institutions or collaborations to improve the internal data exchanges.
- Software vendors in healthcare looking for simpler ways to implement complex specifi-cations.
- IT service providers in healthcare such as ASPs.
- All parties who facilitate complex data exchanges or data stores in healthcare.
Use it for free!
ART DECOR is 100% free and:
- Is the basis for capturing data definitions in healthcare.
- Contains tools for governance and version management.
- Supports various forms of publication.
- Contains issue management to iteratively improve data definitions.
- Enables and simplifies the creation and validation of examples and test scenarios.
- Generates a web page on the fly to enter examples for each dataset.
- Contains tools for conformance testing of participating parties.
- Can be used by others as a basis for the construction of code generators, automatic questionnaires, user interfaces, conversions of data formats, database diagrams and much more.
Used in practice!
ART DECOR is used right now in Germany, Austria, Norway, Lithuania and the Netherlands, among others, at Nictiz (the National Healthcare Standards Institute) and RIVM (the National Healthcare Authority). See also our projects list page.
Take a look at
- the demonstration #3 of ART-DECOR - Demo 3: Electrocardiogram Report as a Minimal CDA Document (switch to English language)
- the DECOR site at Nictiz (in Dutch)
- or download ART-DECOR from SourceForge.
A public ART-DECOR instance online is also available, which features a sandbox and demo environment. If you want to "play" with this project go to Sandbox: EKG Report CDA Document.
Project hosting
We offer free project hosting on ART-DECOR. Feel free to Contact us if you are interested.