Title :
Stand-alone electronic health record
Author :
Duarte, Joao ; Pontes, Gabriel ; Salazar, Magdalena ; Santos, Marcos ; Abelha, Antonio ; Machado, Jose
Author_Institution :
CCTC, Univ. do Minho, Braga, Portugal
Abstract :
Hospitals have made an effort to ensure the permanent availability of data, with the reliance on the information and scalability at the lowest price. Quality and information access speed are guaranteed. On the other hand, information systems become core systems and progressively clinical paper based records has been dematerialized. The single access to information about patients and electronic media, even in critical situations, are now a reality. Despite the efforts referred to above, there remains the possibility of difficulty in accessing information in case of network or electricity failures, or in the event of a local unpredictable disaster. In this paper, we present an extension to the Electronic Health Record, called stand-alone module, to ensure the hospital´s access to patient´s minimal clinical record in a breakdown scenario.
Keywords :
hospitals; medical information systems; clinical paper based records; hospitals; information access; information systems; local unpredictable disaster; minimal clinical record; permanent availability; stand-alone electronic health record; Databases; Electronic medical records; Hospitals; Medical diagnostic imaging;
Conference_Titel :
Industrial Engineering and Engineering Management (IEEM), 2013 IEEE International Conference on
Conference_Location :
Bangkok
DOI :
10.1109/IEEM.2013.6962571