Native-XML storage method of electronic medical record
Fusheng Chen · Computer-aided engineering · 2006
With the detailed analysis of traditional storage method of XML-based Electronic Medical Record (EMR), a conclusion can be drawn that the traditional method has many drawbacks, which includes: it costs dearly to modify the table structure, the system is hard to maintain and has heavy burden, indexes can not be created on XML documents to enhance the query speed, XML resources can not be well used, and also a lot of detailed content will be lost when the XML documents are broken up. With these problems a new method which can reduce the complexity of the system is proposed. Moreover, the application of EMR can greatly decrease system complexity and can be extended to many other fields such as medical information statistic and clinical diagnosis assistant combined with the newly developed XML DML. So it can expand the application fields for EMR.