title: Performance evaluation of continuity of care records (CCRs): parsing models in a mobile health management system.
abstract: In a mobile health management system, mobile devices act as the application hosting devices for personal health records (PHRs) and the healthcare servers construct to exchange and analyze PHRs. One of the most popular PHR standards is continuity of care record (CCR). The CCR is expressed in XML formats. However, parsing is an expensive operation that can degrade XML processing performance. Hence, the objective of this study was to identify different operational and performance characteristics for those CCR parsing models including the XML DOM parser, the SAX parser, the PULL parser, and the JSON parser with regard to JSON data converted from XML-based CCR. Thus, developers can make sensible choices for their target PHR applications to parse CCRs when using mobile devices or servers with different system resources. Furthermore, the simulation experiments of four case studies are conducted to compare the parsing performance on Android mobile devices and the server with large quantities of CCR data.
authors.affiliation: Department of Computer Science and Information Engineering, National Taichung University of Science and Technology, Taichung, Taiwan, Republic of China, hmchen@nutc.edu.tw.
authors.forename: Hung-Ming
authors.initials: HM
authors.lastname: Chen
authors.forename: Yong-Zan
authors.initials: YZ
authors.lastname: Liou
mesh_terms: D040421:Cell Phone; D003198:Computer Simulation; D003266:Continuity of Patient Care; D057286:Electronic Health Records; D055991:Health Records, Personal; D011381:Programming Languages; D012984:Software; D017216:Telemedicine
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