Performance evaluation of a web-based system to exchange Electronic Health Records using Queueing model (M/M/1)

J Med Syst. 2012 Apr;36(2):915-24. doi: 10.1007/s10916-010-9555-3. Epub 2010 Jul 15.

Abstract

Response time measurement of a web-based system is essential to evaluate its performance. This paper shows a comparison of the response times of a Web-based system for Ophthalmologic Electronic Health Records (EHRs), TeleOftalWeb. It makes use of different database models like Oracle 10 g, dbXML 2.0, Xindice 1.2, and eXist 1.1.1. The system's modelling, which uses Tandem Queue networks, will allow us to estimate the service times of the different components of the system (CPU, network and databases). In order to calculate those times, associated to the different databases, benchmarking techniques are used. The final objective of the comparison is to choose the database system resulting in the lowest response time to TeleOftalWeb and to compare the obtained results using a new benchmarking.

Publication types

  • Evaluation Study
  • Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't

MeSH terms

  • Electronic Health Records / organization & administration*
  • Humans
  • Information Storage and Retrieval / methods*
  • Internet*
  • Models, Theoretical
  • Ophthalmology
  • Systems Theory*
  • Time Factors