A proposed architecture and ontology for a software system for managing patient’s health record

The paper presents the architecture of a software system managing the patient´s health record and outlines an ontology which is then used as a framework for implementation. The use of this system will help us to realize the full potential of modern, electronic, health care and to optimize this functionality, ontologies are needed. Standards for coded medical terminologies and for a common representation of clinical data will allow patient information to be transmitted clearly and unambiguously between different computers and different software applications in a secure form which is easily searched, interpreted, and manipulated, and thus most useful. We propose architecture to support distributed tasks and data in a health care network. An experimental implementation of the proposed methodology is in work in a small health care network in order to show the usefulness of the proposals as well as their effectiveness in electronic management of patient´s health record.