TY - JOUR AU - Sánchez-de-Madariaga, Ricardo AU - Muñoz, Adolfo AU - Lozano-Rubí, Raimundo AU - Serrano-Balazote, Pablo AU - Castro, Antonio L. AU - Moreno, Oscar AU - Pascual, Mario PY - 2017 DA - 2017/08/18 TI - Examining database persistence of ISO/EN 13606 standardized electronic health record extracts: relational vs. NoSQL approaches JO - BMC Medical Informatics and Decision Making SP - 123 VL - 17 IS - 1 AB - The objective of this research is to compare the relational and non-relational (NoSQL) database systems approaches in order to store, recover, query and persist standardized medical information in the form of ISO/EN 13606 normalized Electronic Health Record XML extracts, both in isolation and concurrently. NoSQL database systems have recently attracted much attention, but few studies in the literature address their direct comparison with relational databases when applied to build the persistence layer of a standardized medical information system. SN - 1472-6947 UR - https://doi.org/10.1186/s12911-017-0515-4 DO - 10.1186/s12911-017-0515-4 ID - Sánchez-de-Madariaga2017 ER -