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Abstract
The National Health Service National Programme for Information Technology is currently developing messaging standards to make available key information about an individual patient's care across and within different health-care settings. The complexity of this task makes it imperative that adequate tooling support is made available so as to aid consistency of design, implementation, conformance testing, and maintenance. Connecting for Health commissioned a proof of concept study to investigate whether the Object Web Language (OWL) and its associated tools could provide a basis for the message development and implementation environments. This study indicated that OWL is very much suited to such a task and should be seriously considered.
Acknowledgements
This paper results from a feasibility study commissioned by Connecting for Health and was carried out in the summer of 2005 by Professor Alan Rector, University of Manchester and Tom Marley, SHIRE, University of Salford. The Universities of Manchester and Salford would like to offer their deep appreciation of the support, both financial and human, to Connecting for Health, without which this study could not have been undertaken.