Designing and implementing an electronic health record (Ehr) for telemedicine purposes

Abstract

This research deals with the problem of maintaining data, deemed to be one of the biggest problems of health entities. Most hospitals and clinic suffer loss of data saved in databases and unavailability of strong cohesive information systems. The objective of this study is to design and implement a web-based EHR system that can help create a national repository of health data, and will therefore, make the deployment of telemedicine applications easier in the future. The EHR system ables to store the patient information, which normally includes personal information, address, demographics, progress notes, immunization, lab data, Radiology information, past medical history, family history, vital sign, tobacco history, alcohol history, examinations, and so on. The proposed system consists of two another components, Queries system which is built to combine data from different tables by using a combination of mathematical or logical operators, Queries system used to answer on a an academic researchers questions. And the front-end of the EHR system which it is a set of GUI(Graphic User Interfaces) that act as a bridge in between the end users and the EHR system.