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DOI: 10.14569/IJACSA.2021.0121017
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Integrated Document-based Electronic Health Records Persistence Framework

Author 1: Aya Gamal
Author 2: Sherif Barakat
Author 3: Amira Rezk

International Journal of Advanced Computer Science and Applications(IJACSA), Volume 12 Issue 10, 2021.

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Abstract: Electronic health record systems work beyond just recording patients` health data. They have multiple secondary functionalities, such as data reporting and clinical decision support. As each of these systems` workloads has contradictory different needs, managing a multipurpose electronic health record is a challenge. This paper proposes a unified healthcare data framework that can simplify health information system infrastructure. It investigates the suitability of the document-based NoSQL persistence mechanism, storing electronic health records data as a design choice for managing varied complexity ad hoc queries used in operational business intelligence. The performance of the most popular two document-based NoSQL back-ends, Couchbase Server and MongoDB, is compared according to the size of the database and query execution time. Results showed that while MongoDB can execute simple single-document queries nearly in milliseconds. It does not provide satisfactory response time for unplanned complex queries spanning multiple documents. By utilizing its analytics services and multi-dimensional scaling architecture, Couchbase Server multi-node cluster outperforms the response times of MongoDB for both simple and complex healthcare data access patterns. The primary advantage of the proposed tightly coupled EHRs processing framework is its flexibility to manage workload according to changing requirements.

Keywords: Electronic health records; operational business intelligence; document data model; NoSQL; health information system; persistence framework; Couchbase server

Aya Gamal, Sherif Barakat and Amira Rezk, “Integrated Document-based Electronic Health Records Persistence Framework” International Journal of Advanced Computer Science and Applications(IJACSA), 12(10), 2021. http://dx.doi.org/10.14569/IJACSA.2021.0121017

@article{Gamal2021,
title = {Integrated Document-based Electronic Health Records Persistence Framework},
journal = {International Journal of Advanced Computer Science and Applications},
doi = {10.14569/IJACSA.2021.0121017},
url = {http://dx.doi.org/10.14569/IJACSA.2021.0121017},
year = {2021},
publisher = {The Science and Information Organization},
volume = {12},
number = {10},
author = {Aya Gamal and Sherif Barakat and Amira Rezk}
}



Copyright Statement: This is an open access article licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, even commercially as long as the original work is properly cited.

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