The MIC/MIE model for generating multimedia patient folder

The patient folder is the main source of documentation on the patient's health state. It is not a mere collection of information, but a set of heterogeneous documents accessed by different users having different goals (e.g. choice of a therapeutic strategy, quality assessment). In this paper, we present an information model - the MIC/MIE model - able to represent the heterogeneous kinds of data composing a patient folder. The MIC/MIE model is based on an object-oriented approach and supports the definition of a multimedia patient folder. It is flexible enough to be adapted to diverse clinical environments and it allows physicians to structure the information needed in their patient folder without employing a programming language. Finally, we show some features of the CADMIO system, a tool based on this model which can be employed for designing patient folder management systems.