International Journal of Computer Applications |
Foundation of Computer Science (FCS), NY, USA |
Volume 175 - Number 24 |
Year of Publication: 2020 |
Authors: Subrata Kumar Das, Mohammad Zahidur Rahman |
10.5120/ijca2020920782 |
Subrata Kumar Das, Mohammad Zahidur Rahman . Distinct Features of Healthcare Systems and An Architecture to Manage Healthcare Distributed Databases. International Journal of Computer Applications. 175, 24 ( Oct 2020), 1-8. DOI=10.5120/ijca2020920782
Healthcare organizations store patient records (EMR, EHR, and PHR) in electronic formats to recall urgent information about the patients. The sharing of the health record is very much important to make urgent decisions about the individuals care and quality treatment. Unlike other database systems, healthcare repository systems have distinct features. Data accesses here are localized most, not performed for all patients equally and from different locations at a time, etc. As a result, managing the distributed databases containing health data using a traditional database management system (DBMS) is not a better choice. This article proposes an architecture to manage nodes by keeping transparency and share data by identifying the distinctive features of the healthcare systems. As the volume of the patient data is increasing hugely in the medical sector, other pressing issues are reducing memory consumption and managing replication to ensure data reliability. This article also proposes a new replication strategy by relating to the proposed architecture to reduce the number of replicas, network overhead, and memory consumption without compromising performance. The experiment result shows that the proposed system outperforms the existing conventional systems.