Development MFER (Medical waveform Format Encoding Rules) parser

The union of the diagnosis and treatment document and the accompanied inspection data is indispensable for the success of community health cooperation. Especially in the perinatal medicine we require the standardization of diagnosis document and the fetal cardiotocograph data. For diagnosis document, HL7CDA will be the leading solution, but for the fetal cardiotocograph, it does not show enough activity in the standardization. Moreover, the development of the tools and the application utilizes the standard is the key component to expand use of the standard. We have the idea that we describe the CTG data with MFER (Medical wave form Format Encoding Rule). MFER is the specialized in the description of medical waveform and it's generic design enables to apply to any medical wave pattern. There is a degree of freedom in the composition and the interpretation of the data structure in MFER. So we have developed MFER parser to ease the handling with MFER. In this paper, we introduce the implementation of the MFER parser and application to the CTG description with MFER format.