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Ubiquitous Health Profile (UHPr): a big data curation platform for supporting health data interoperability
Computing
  • Fahad Ahmed Satti, Kyung Hee University
  • Taqdir Ali, Hamad Bin Khalifa University, College of Science and Engineering
  • Jamil Hussain, Kyung Hee University
  • Wajahat Ali Khan, University of Derby
  • Asad Masood Khattak, Zayed University
  • Sungyoung Lee, Kyung Hee University
Document Type
Article
Publication Date
11-1-2020
Abstract

© 2020, Springer-Verlag GmbH Austria, part of Springer Nature. The lack of Interoperable healthcare data presents a major challenge, towards achieving ubiquitous health care. The plethora of diverse medical standards, rather than common standards, is widening the gap of interoperability. While many organizations are working towards a standardized solution, there is a need for an alternate strategy, which can intelligently mediate amongst a variety of medical systems, not complying with any mainstream healthcare standards while utilizing the benefits of several standard merging initiates, to eventually create digital health personas. The existence and efficiency of such a platform is dependent upon the underlying storage and processing engine, which can acquire, manage and retrieve the relevant medical data. In this paper, we present the Ubiquitous Health Profile (UHPr), a multi-dimensional data storage solution in a semi-structured data curation engine, which provides foundational support for archiving heterogeneous medical data and achieving partial data interoperability in the healthcare domain. Additionally, we present the evaluation results of this proposed platform in terms of its timeliness, accuracy, and scalability. Our results indicate that the UHPr is able to retrieve an error free comprehensive medical profile of a single patient, from a set of slightly over 116.5 million serialized medical fragments for 390,101 patients while maintaining a good scalablity ratio between amount of data and its retrieval speed.

Publisher
Springer
Disciplines
Keywords
  • Big data,
  • Data curation,
  • Data interoperability,
  • Healthcare information systems
Scopus ID
85089597266
Indexed in Scopus
Yes
Open Access
Yes
Open Access Type
Bronze: This publication is openly available on the publisher’s website but without an open license
https://doi.org/10.1007/s00607-020-00837-2
Citation Information
Fahad Ahmed Satti, Taqdir Ali, Jamil Hussain, Wajahat Ali Khan, et al.. "Ubiquitous Health Profile (UHPr): a big data curation platform for supporting health data interoperability" Computing Vol. 102 Iss. 11 (2020) p. 2409 - 2444 ISSN: <a href="https://v2.sherpa.ac.uk/id/publication/issn/0010-485X" target="_blank">0010-485X</a>
Available at: http://works.bepress.com/asad-khattak/85/