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Archetype relational mapping - a practical openEHR persistence solution

Overview of attention for article published in BMC Medical Informatics and Decision Making, November 2015
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Title
Archetype relational mapping - a practical openEHR persistence solution
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BMC Medical Informatics and Decision Making, November 2015
DOI 10.1186/s12911-015-0212-0
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Li Wang, Lingtong Min, Rui Wang, Xudong Lu, Huilong Duan

Abstract

One of the primary obstacles to the widespread adoption of openEHR methodology is the lack of practical persistence solutions for future-proof electronic health record (EHR) systems as described by the openEHR specifications. This paper presents an archetype relational mapping (ARM) persistence solution for the archetype-based EHR systems to support healthcare delivery in the clinical environment. First, the data requirements of the EHR systems are analysed and organized into archetype-friendly concepts. The Clinical Knowledge Manager (CKM) is queried for matching archetypes; when necessary, new archetypes are developed to reflect concepts that are not encompassed by existing archetypes. Next, a template is designed for each archetype to apply constraints related to the local EHR context. Finally, a set of rules is designed to map the archetypes to data tables and provide data persistence based on the relational database. A comparison study was conducted to investigate the differences among the conventional database of an EHR system from a tertiary Class A hospital in China, the generated ARM database, and the Node + Path database. Five data-retrieving tests were designed based on clinical workflow to retrieve exams and laboratory tests. Additionally, two patient-searching tests were designed to identify patients who satisfy certain criteria. The ARM database achieved better performance than the conventional database in three of the five data-retrieving tests, but was less efficient in the remaining two tests. The time difference of query executions conducted by the ARM database and the conventional database is less than 130 %. The ARM database was approximately 6-50 times more efficient than the conventional database in the patient-searching tests, while the Node + Path database requires far more time than the other two databases to execute both the data-retrieving and the patient-searching tests. The ARM approach is capable of generating relational databases using archetypes and templates for archetype-based EHR systems, thus successfully adapting to changes in data requirements. ARM performance is similar to that of conventionally-designed EHR systems, and can be applied in a practical clinical environment. System components such as ARM can greatly facilitate the adoption of openEHR architecture within EHR systems.

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Country Count As %
Brazil 1 1%
Unknown 83 99%

Demographic breakdown

Readers by professional status Count As %
Student > Master 16 19%
Researcher 14 17%
Student > Ph. D. Student 11 13%
Student > Postgraduate 5 6%
Student > Doctoral Student 5 6%
Other 16 19%
Unknown 17 20%
Readers by discipline Count As %
Computer Science 30 36%
Medicine and Dentistry 14 17%
Engineering 8 10%
Nursing and Health Professions 3 4%
Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology 3 4%
Other 5 6%
Unknown 21 25%
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