DECOR purpose

DECOR (Data Elements, Codes, OIDs and Rules) is a methodology and persistence layer for capturing the data requirements of healthcare professionals in data sets and scenarios, and uses that information as a source for documentation and all necessary technical artifacts.

DECOR answers questions like:

• What type of information is recorded by the parties involved?
• Where does their contribution end?
• Where are other parties involved and what is their involvement?
• How to maintain a consistent and meaningful representation of this information?
• How to record constraints on generic models?
• What type of support is needed by vendors to construct interfaces?
• How to generate documentation and supporting documents?
• How are constraints tested?

The experience that stems from DECOR is used as feedback on existing standards (that form the basis for DECOR) and as input for future international standardization initiatives (HL7, IHE).