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A software tool for large-scale sharing and querying of clinical documents modeled using HL7 version 3 standard

Authors:

Praveen R. Rao,

Tivakar Komara Swami,

Deepthi S. Rao,

Michael J. Barnes,

Swati G. Thorve,

Prasad NatooAuthors Info & Claims

IHI '12: Proceedings of the 2nd ACM SIGHIT International Health Informatics Symposium

Pages 473 - 482

https://doi.org/10.1145/2110363.2110417

Published: 28 January 2012 Publication History

Abstract

We present a novel software tool called CDN (Collaborative Data Network) for large-scale sharing and querying of clinical documents modeled using HL7 v3 standard (e.g., Clinical Document Architecture (CDA), Continuity of Care Document (CCD)). Similar to the caBIG initiative, CDN aims to foster innovations in cancer treatment and diagnosis through large-scale, sharing of clinical data. We focus on cancer because it is the second leading cause of deaths in the US. CDN is based on the synergistic combination of peer-to-peer technology and the extensible markup language XML and XQuery. Using CDN, a user can pose both structured queries and keyword queries on the HL7 v3 documents hosted by data providers. CDN is unique in its design - it supports location oblivious queries in a large-scale, network wherein a user does not explicitly provide the location of the data for a query. A location service in CDN discovers data of interest in the network at query time. CDN uses standard cryptographic techniques to provide security to data providers and protect the privacy of patients. Using CDN, a user can pose clinical queries pertaining to cancer containing aggregations and joins across data hosted by multiple data providers. CDN is implemented with open-source software for web application development and XML query processing. We report the evaluation of CDN in a distributed environment (LAN) using a real dataset of discharge summaries available from the i2b2 project.

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https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/3178461.3178480
Slavov VRao P(2014)A gossip-based approach for Internet-scale cardinality estimation of XPath queries over distributed semistructured dataThe VLDB Journal — The International Journal on Very Large Data Bases10.1007/s00778-013-0314-123:1(51-76)Online publication date: 1-Feb-2014
https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1007/s00778-013-0314-1
Slavov VRao PPaturi SSwami TBarnes MRao DPalvai R(2013)A new tool for sharing and querying of clinical documents modeled using HL7 Version 3 standardComputer Methods and Programs in Biomedicine10.1016/j.cmpb.2013.07.002112:3(529-552)Online publication date: 1-Dec-2013
https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1016/j.cmpb.2013.07.002

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