Extracting Data from General Practitioners' XML Reports in Bulgarian Healthcare to Comply with ISO/EN 13606

Abstract

Software applications that are used in the Bulgarian healthcare area generate a lot of data, describing the medical state of the patients. At the moment this data is mostly used for financial reports for the Bulgarian National Health Insurance Fund, based on which the medical entities (general practitioners, hospitals, healthcare centers, etc.) are paid. In case the data coming from different systems is constantly analyzed it can be used for other purposes -- statistics, analysis, and analytics. In this article, we analyze the information coming from XML reports generated from general practitioners' applications and propose an approach to transform it to comply with the standard ISO/EN 13606, which is approved in EU.