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Performance analysis of a medical record exchanges model.
MedLine Citation:
PMID:  17390985     Owner:  NLM     Status:  MEDLINE    
Abstract/OtherAbstract:
Electronic medical record exchange among hospitals can provide more information for physician diagnosis and reduce costs from duplicate examinations. In this paper, we proposed and implemented a medical record exchange model. According to our study, exchange interface servers (EISs) are designed for hospitals to manage the information communication through the intra and interhospital networks linked with a medical records database. An index service center can be given responsibility for managing the EIS and publishing the addresses and public keys. The prototype system has been implemented to generate, parse, and transfer the health level seven query messages. Moreover, the system can encrypt and decrypt a message using the public-key encryption algorithm. The queuing theory is applied to evaluate the performance of our proposed model. We estimated the service time for each queue of the CPU, database, and network, and measured the response time and possible bottlenecks of the model. The capacity of the model is estimated to process the medical records of about 4000 patients/h in the 1-MB network backbone environments, which comprises about the 4% of the total outpatients in Taiwan.
Authors:
Ean-Wen Huang; Der-Ming Liou
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Publication Detail:
Type:  Evaluation Studies; Journal Article; Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't    
Journal Detail:
Title:  IEEE transactions on information technology in biomedicine : a publication of the IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society     Volume:  11     ISSN:  1089-7771     ISO Abbreviation:  IEEE Trans Inf Technol Biomed     Publication Date:  2007 Mar 
Date Detail:
Created Date:  2007-03-29     Completed Date:  2007-04-24     Revised Date:  -    
Medline Journal Info:
Nlm Unique ID:  9712259     Medline TA:  IEEE Trans Inf Technol Biomed     Country:  United States    
Other Details:
Languages:  eng     Pagination:  153-60     Citation Subset:  IM    
Affiliation:
Department of Information Management, National Taipei College of Nursing, Taipei 112, Taiwan, ROC. huang@mail1.ntcn.edu.tw
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MeSH Terms
Descriptor/Qualifier:
Algorithms*
Computer Communication Networks*
Database Management Systems*
Information Storage and Retrieval / methods*
Medical Records Systems, Computerized*
Quality Assurance, Health Care / methods*

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