ORBDA: An openEHR benchmark dataset for performance assessment of electronic health record servers.
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SUBMITTER: Teodoro D
PROVIDER: S-EPMC5749730 | biostudies-literature | 2018
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ORBDA: An openEHR benchmark dataset for performance assessment of electronic health record servers.
Teodoro Douglas D Sundvall Erik E João Junior Mario M Ruch Patrick P Miranda Freire Sergio S
PloS one 20180102 1
The openEHR specifications are designed to support implementation of flexible and interoperable Electronic Health Record (EHR) systems. Despite the increasing number of solutions based on the openEHR specifications, it is difficult to find publicly available healthcare datasets in the openEHR format that can be used to test, compare and validate different data persistence mechanisms for openEHR. To foster research on openEHR servers, we present the openEHR Benchmark Dataset, ORBDA, a very large ...[more]
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