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- Obsidian MEDILIG Alias
- Obsidian MEDILIG - Embedding/Transclusion
- Obsidian MEDILIG - Network Graph

The trial version always comes with three registered patients to test the program's functions. The first patient created in Obsidian MEDILIG is pat100.patient, his profile prf100.profile, his medical history mh100.medhist, his medications med100.drugs, his visits (medical encounters) enc100-1-1.encounter and enc100-1-2.encounter which are linked to his clinical case cc100-1.clincase. For the same patient, we have created two multimedia medical documents mdoc100-1-1.document and mdoc100-1-2.document which appear in the patient's medical library lib100.library.

Using internal links (bold green color) it is very easy to reference any file, or file section inside the patient's folder from any Obsidian markdown document using the double bracket syntax [[ ]] and then completing the file name and section. For example, the profile file of any patient always starts with the prefix prf continues with the identifier (e.g. 100) and has the extension .profile, that is prf100.profile.

Obsidian MEDILIG Alias

Each patient in the system has been created with an alias that includes the name, surname and a phone number. Thus searching for the patient or creating references to their folder becomes very simple by typing any of the elements that make up the alias (Fig. 1). For example the alias for pat100.patient is NIKOLAOS_PAPADOPOULOS_6945678901

Fig. 1: Searching for or creating a reference to the patient folder through the alias using the double bracket syntax

Obsidian MEDILIG - Embedding/Transclusion

Regarding content (embedding, also known as transclusion) from notes or multimedia that are scattered across different files and in specific paragraphs, headings, or any text block.

If we assume that we want to embed at this point the chief complaint of the patient above for his second visit, we would start by typing ![[enc100-]] and Obsidian MEDILIG will find the visits (encounters) that are associated with the first (No.1) clinical case (Fig. 2). Here in the example we select the second visit ![[enc100-1-2.encounter]].

Fig. 2: Searching for patient visits and incorporating a section from a specific heading

To show us the exact point, section of the file we want to embed here (Fig. 3)

Fig. 3: By adding the # symbol after the file name, Obsidian will display the text under the specific heading

After we select it, it will display that section of the text, Reason for Encounter from the other file here:

In the same way to display patient's medication we would write
![[med100.drugs#Administered Medicines]]

Administered Medicines

DRUG	DOSAGE	START	END	OTHER	ROUTE

Obsidian MEDILIG - Network Graph

If we open patient's record summary pat100.patient we can easily and quickly see which other files reference it Fig. 4. Alternatively we can see how these files are related using a graph network view. These incoming connections of pat100.patient file in Obsidian are called backlinks.

Fig. 4: From the right panel by clicking on the backlinks icon it will show us all the files and the exact points which reference the patient tab with the summary "pat100.patient". For example the current file has three references, while the medications file has two references

Another example, in the current file (DOC - Use of internal links) if we open the right panel and select the outgoing links, it will show us the following list with files, images and headings to which there is a reference (Fig. 5).

Fig. 5: Display of the outgoing links of the current file, there are references (external links) to images, to files of the specific patient folder, as well as to two sections with headings from other files

Alternatively here is a graph network view of all the markdown files and assets (media files) that this file (DOC - Use of internal links) is linked to