Abstract
Various systems, methods and techniques are in use by patients and medical centers to provide the necessary information and to serve medical profession including hospital information systems. One of the most important services is Personal Health care Record (PHR) portability and management. This problem has become out of history of paper records kept separately by physicians, clinics, hospitals, pharmacies, insurance companies and patients themselves. Many approaches were implemented to improve and manage the PHR including portability solution. These approaches were based on implementing portable memory device such as flash memory and Smart Cards. In this work an embedded PHR system was developed. The developed system allows operating and managing PHR by the help of standalone system.
Highlights
Nowadays different systems are used in medical information industry to support the work of medical staff, data acquisition and processing, clinical management and electronic medical records
In clinical and hospital centers we can consider three types of informative parameters which needed to be considered in health care information system, mainly when we are talking about patient health care record [3], these types are: 1) Personal information: The hospital may want the name, address and the age of the patient
Nowadays Personal Health care Record (PHR) refers to a digital form record which could be integrated with the provider's electronic health record [6]
Summary
Various types of technologies are in use by health care industry plays a vital role in improving patient-physician relationship [1]. The aim of currently used systems is to provide service integration, but is still one of the main challenges for healthcare practitioners This challenge emerged from the usage of paper-based record which is held separately by physicians, clinics, hospitals, pharmacies, insurance companies and patients themselves. The basic health information, such as demographic and health insurance information and lists of conditions, medications and allergies in PHR play the main key in medial diagnose and therapy [2] This explains why researches and development in the field of health care and patient record is a viable continuous process. The aim of this work is to present an easy accessible and portable PHR with providing a robust and comprehensive support system based on embedded system design In this case the design of embedded PHR includes integrated communication submoudles based on SMS, internet and Zigbee technologies to provide accessibility of the system. A patient’s medical record is stored in one geographical location on a server which is accessible from anywhere in the world via the internet
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