FUJI-Scheduler : Outpatient-Test-Order-Management Function for Order Entry System

The computerization of medical institutions as part of the social infrastructure is one of the priority elements referred to in the government´s e-Japan strategy. The computerization of patient data is currently making progress, and these are being accumulated by medical institutions as massive volumes of patient data. In order to use these records effectively, therefore, medical institutions require the capability to represent patient records in a variety of different forms that aid in understanding the information, the capability to share patient records among multiple medical institutions, the capability to support the systematic and effective provision of medical care, and other such functionality. In this paper, the clinical planning for the outpatient medical care of chronic disease patients and the data representation for EPR system are investigated. This paper also describes the order entry system that incorporates FUJI-Scheduler that supports formulating test order schedule and the function that efficiently represents the past test order data and the future test order data. This system is able to create annual test schedules for each patient and automatically create test orders using the plan. It also provides a new user interface that reduces the workload of the people who create the plans. This system is presently being operated on an experimental basis