A Ubiquitous Clinic Data Accessing Method Based on Resource Model

Delivering clinic information of patient at the point-of-care to physicians is critical to increase the quality of healthcare services, especially in emergency departments of hospitals. However, since that medical records and clinic data are distributed in different hospitals, it is sometimes difficult to collect clinic data of patient ubiquitously in case of urgency. In order to support the ubiquitous content accessing, in this paper, a resource model is first proposed to locate and get clinic data which are stored in heterogeneous hospital information systems. Then, a ubiquitous clinic data accessing method is proposed based on the resource model. In the proposed method, clinic data of patient is defined as resource with unique URL address. Related clinic data of one patient is collected together to form a combinational resource, and could be accessed by physician if authority is assigned to the physician. Finally, case study is discussed to illustrate the method of clinic data accessing through Internet from different healthcare units. The result shows that the clinic data of patients could be accessed more conveniently.