Medical-Objects has an active standards-based research and development program. It is represented at HL7 and Standards Australia nationally where it has responsibility for V1.1 of the decision support language GELLO. Other standards, namely HL7 V2, SNOMED-CT, CEN 13606 (Archetypes) and the CCR/CCD (health record summaries) are used as platforms for the various editors and development tools that Medical-Objects uses and shares with others for refinement.

With Medical-Objects software, it is possible to develop a complete suite of integrated model-derived functionality according to the following diagram.

Diagram modified from Alan Rector's "Model of models" found atL Rector A, Taweel A, Rogers J, (2004) Models and Inference methods for Clinical Systems: A Principled Approach, Proceedings of MedInfo 2004

GELLO is a robust types object-orientated Clinical Decision Support language. It contains SNOMED-CT classes and methods to really leverage the knowledge in the concept model. It is also used on the information model side to enabled electronic decisions that derive from real-time HL7 data, such as pathology results as well as archetypes data or from a virtual medical record (vMR). 

Medical-Objects also uses GELLO to make 'smarter' archetypes. The editor for this is called MOWGLI, and this is embedded in our Guideline Interchange Format (GLIF) editor also. The GLIF editor is available as a stand-alone application and is also included in later versions of Medical-Objects Explorer.

The Medical-Objects Template Editor is used to create, import and edit CEN 13606 standard archetypes. It can open and edit openEHR archetypes. It has a preview pane for a user view, HTML output and input capability, HL7 export and preview, data typing, terminology mapping (including terminology constraints and support for SNOMED-CT Concept Model derived expressions), testing capability with import for HL7 data files and a GELLO editor for various node attributes such as 'Visibility', 'Reference Ranges' and 'Calculate'.

Medical-Objects has a terminology server running for SNOMED-CT, and capacity to provide embedded fast terminology support within application. 

The GELLO editor, the GLIF editor and the Template editor have been extensively tested and are used in everyday Medical-Objects based systems, including a pathology laboratory that runs soley on Medical-Objects software, and recent releases of Medical-Objects Explorer. Being standards-based and modular in design means you can start to play with these essential components for health informatics applications, and as confidence increases, integrate with your applications and/or build new ones with the help from Medical-Objects documentation that makes use of worked examples.