Abstract
This chapter introduces the Intentionally Linked Entities (ILE) database system and the possibility of using ILE to more efficiently and accurately manage data in health care information systems. ILE links data entities in a more robust and efficient way than the relational database system. ILE also stores data in a more organized fashion than the relational, tabular NoSQL database systems and the graph database system, and it is capable of expressing more general relationships among data entities than the object-oriented database (OODB) system. All these positive qualities of ILE present the possibility of improving the reliability and correctness of health care databases, and may lead to improved and more efficient patient care and health care database analysis. This chapter includes an example that illustrates how ILE can be used for an epidemiological database, and includes a comparison of ILE as applied to electronic health record (her) representation with two other nonrelational approaches to storing and managing EHRs.
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