Evaluating parallel relational databases for medical data analysis.

Rintoul, Mark Daniel ; Wilson, Andrew T.

关键词: COMPUTERS;    DATA ANALYSIS;    HOSPITALS;    MEDICAL RECORDS;    PATIENTS;    PARALLEL PROCESSING;   

DOI  :  10.2172/1039004
RP-ID  :  SAND2012-1881
PID  :  OSTI ID: 1039004
Others  :  TRN: US201209%%291

学科分类：社会科学、人文和艺术（综合）

美国|英语

来源: SciTech Connect

【 摘 要 】

Hospitals have always generated and consumed large amounts of data concerning patients, treatment and outcomes. As computers and networks have permeated the hospital environment it has become feasible to collect and organize all of this data. This raises naturally the question of how to deal with the resulting mountain of information. In this report we detail a proof-of-concept test using two commercially available parallel database systems to analyze a set of real, de-identified medical records. We examine database scalability as data sizes increase as well as responsiveness under load from multiple users.