title: Hybrid representation of hierarchical structures in point-of-care coded data capture platform.
abstract: Capturing structured clinical documentation remains a central challenge in clinical informatics. A solution which represented highly hierarchical data in a relational structure exhibited degradation in performance as complexity of hierarchies grew. To ameliorate the problem, we devised a hybrid approach whereby we commit a precompiled XML representation of hierarchical data as well as individual records to a relational database.
authors.affiliation: Clinical Informatics R&D, Partners HealthCare System, Inc., Boston, MA, USA.
authors.forename: Maya
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Olsha-Yehiav
authors.forename: Matvey B
authors.initials: MB
authors.lastname: Palchuk
authors.forename: Nancy N
authors.initials: NN
authors.lastname: Whipple
authors.forename: Eunice
authors.initials: E
authors.lastname: Jung
authors.forename: Qi
authors.initials: Q
authors.lastname: Li
authors.forename: Blackford
authors.initials: B
authors.lastname: Middleton
mesh_terms: D003628:Database Management Systems; D005568:Forms and Records Control; D016347:Medical Records Systems, Computerized; D019095:Point-of-Care Systems; D011381:Programming Languages; D018875:Vocabulary, Controlled