XML-ECG: An XML-Based ECG Presentation for Data Exchanging

With the development of the electrical health record and telemedicine, sharing healthcare data becomes more and more important. Standardizing the data presentation is the best solution to exchange them among heterogeneous systems. But ECG has met problem since almost none of the standard could be used for this purpose well. The paper introduces a simple but complete XML-based data presentation method: XML-ECG. It has the "Header" section for common information and "Body" section for content, which is constituted of six modules with each for certain part of ECG related information. In order to convert XML-ECG to & from other ECG data format, the work of XML-ECG conversion tool set is introduced, which could also verify the completeness of XML-ECG. Besides, the work of integrated ECG viewer is also described to show the applications of XML-ECG in EHR system or telemedicine.