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ART-DECOR in four bullet points is...

• ...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 one single documentation for different domain experts
• ...supports creation and maintenance of HL7 templates (DSTU), value sets, data sets and more

DECOR (Data Elements, Codes, OIDs and Rules) is a methodology to capture the data needs of caregivers in terms of data sets and scenarios and use it to generate various artifacts: documentation, value sets, XML instance validation, generation and processing support, and test tools etc. DECOR allows to iteratively improve recorded data and link together input from various experts with different background knowledge like caregivers, terminologist, modelers, analysts and interface/communication specialists. DECOR mainly registers datasets, data types, allowable value ranges, identifications, codes, business rules with an underlying version management. The underlying data format is XML, and transformations with style sheets can be used for HTML documentation, consistency checks across all artefacts and to generate XML materials.

ART (Advanced Requirement Tooling) is the DECOR user interface to create and adapt DECOR files, and to generate artifacts from DECOR files. ART is based on the eXist XML database, XQuery and Orbeon XForms.

Healthcare Providers, Medical Experts and Researchers

Terminologists

Analysts, Modellers and Template Creators

Vendors and Interface Specialists