An Electronic Patient Record "on Steroids": Distributed, Peer-to-Peer, Secure and Privacy-conscious

Summary: A unified P2P architecture models each patient record as a virtual, distributed XML document spanning patients, clinicians, hospitals, insurers, and others. Active XML provides dynamic integration, while GUPster supplies source descriptions, access control, and privacy management. (summarized by gpt-5.6-luna on Jul 24 2026)

Paper ID: 9305
Venue: VLDB
Year: 2004
Pagerank: 5.093636e-05
Overall Rank: 12,788 | 12.27%
DOI: 10.1016/B978-012088469-8.50125-X

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Authors

1. Serge Abiteboul (INRIA)
2. Bogdan Alexe (Bell Labs, Lucent Technologies)
3. Omar Benjelloun (INRIA)
4. Bogdan Cautis (INRIA)
5. Irini Fundulaki (Bell Labs, Lucent Technologies)
6. Tova Milo (INRIA; Tel Aviv University)
7. Arnaud Sahuguet (Bell Labs, Lucent Technologies)

BibTeX Citation

@article{abiteboul_vldb04,
        title = {{An Electronic Patient Record "on Steroids": Distributed, Peer-to-Peer, Secure and Privacy-conscious}},
        author = {Abiteboul, Serge and Alexe, Bogdan and Benjelloun, Omar and Cautis, Bogdan and Fundulaki, Irini and Milo, Tova and Sahuguet, Arnaud},
        journal = {PVLDB},
        series = {{VLDB} '04},
        doi = {10.1016/B978-012088469-8.50125-X},
        url = {https://doi.org/10.1016/B978-012088469-8.50125-X},
        year = {2004}
}

Incoming Citations (Sorted by Pagerank)

Showing 1 of 1 citing papers.

Rank	Citing Paper	Year	Venue	Pagerank
12,721	User Profile Management in Converged Networks (Episode II): "Share your data, Keep your secrets"	2005	CIDR	5.093636e-05

Outgoing Citations (Sorted by Pagerank)

Showing 8 of 8 cited papers.

Citations counted here include only citations to other VLDB/SIGMOD/CIDR/PODS papers in this database.

Rank	Cited Paper	Year	Venue	Pagerank
404	Hippocratic Databases	2002	VLDB	0.00019065022
5,280	Enter Once, Share Everywhere: User Profile Management in Converged Networks	2003	CIDR	6.2842528e-05
5,360	Lazy Query Evaluation for Active XML	2004	SIGMOD	6.2487273e-05
5,661	Exchanging Intensional XML Data	2003	SIGMOD	6.130087e-05
9,006	Active XML: Peer-to-Peer Data and Web Services Integration	2002	VLDB	5.3340698e-05
12,826	Schema-driven Customization of Web Services	2003	VLDB	5.093636e-05
13,892	"Share your data, Keep your secrets."	2004	SIGMOD	-
13,948	Managing Distributed Workspaces with Active XML	2003	VLDB	-

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