Quiz-Part 2 - Answer Template

300955- Healthcare Data Environments
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301028- Advanced Healthcare Data Environments
Spring 2019
Quiz-Part 2 - Answer Template
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1a Text based: Text based formats implies the usage of
the richly detailed, narrative text for defining
standards in healthcare. Text based healthcare data
standards are often commonly used by health
professionals to write key clinical notes for a
particular patient (Kubben, 2019). The following
patient note and nursing handover is a key example:
Patient Narrative Report: “The patient, a 70
year old man, was admitted upon complaints of
severe chest pain and shortness of breath. He
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was rushed to the emergency ward, where after
an administration of Nitroglycerin, his condition
was observed to be stable.” (Kubben, 2019).
XML: Known as, ‘Extensible Markup Language’, XML
format is a type of markup or computer processing
language for the purpose of encoding documents in a
language which is both possible to be read by
machines as well a humans. It is the most commonly
used format in the international healthcare data
standards postulated by ‘Health Level Seven’ (Seol et
al., 2018). The following is an example of an
electronic health data for a patient (Source: Camargo,
Sierra & Torres, 2015).
JSON: Also known as ‘JavaScript Object Notation’, it
is a type of open standard computing file format
which utilises text readable by humans for the
purpose of transmission of objects in data comprising
of arrays and pairs of data attribute-values (Mandel et
al., 2016). The following is another example of an
electronic health record of a patient using a JSON
format (Source: Health Level Seven, 2019).

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1b Advantages and Disadvantages:
Text based: It is easy to use and understand and
provides scope for incorporating rich details. However,
due to its semi-structure ofr unnecessarily detailed
unstructured formats, it is of time consuming to
prepare and understand during emergencies and are
difficult to access and find at clinical workstations
(Kubben, 2019).
XML: It is flexible and simple to use and can support
a variety of human languages. However, a major
disadvantage is the need for a separate systems of
application processing since there are no browsers yet
which may be capable to read XML (Rac-Albu et al.,
2016).
JSON: The syntax of this format is easy to understand
and use and is compatible with a number of browsers
resulting in quick data execution and ease in parsing.
A major disadvantage is a lack of security since JSON
based healthcare data services return insecure
browsers in the form of function calls which can be
executed easily by the untrustworthy browser
resulting in hacking (Rinner & Duftschmid, 2016).
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2 For the exchange, transfer and sharing of data across
various healthcare facilities for the departments of
medical imaging, medical pathology and laboratory,
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