MEDICAL DROP BOX (MDB)

Abstract

Introduction: National Health Information Exchange (NHIX) Systems are rapidlyevolving. Due to the cyber infrastructure and improvements in communication technology, itis possible to share healthcare related data within a geographic region electronically amonghealthcare related autonomous entities such as physicians, hospitals, test laboratories, insurers,emerging Health Information Organizations (HIO), and even government departments. StudyDesign: Whether data are collected with the RCT, Quasi-experimentation or Triangulationetc., we present to explore a NHIX system for EHR that has also been implemented as atest case. We particularly propose to demonstrate a concept application, Medical Drop Box(MDB) with the key technological components of a future NHIX System for medical industry.Setting: Data from different medical settings have been used for testing the new system butthe technological development has been done at IIU, Islamabad. Period: The proposed systemis not time bond in terms of data collection. Basically the proposed system can handle datacollected in any chunk of time in the history and can provide information as and when neededin future. Material & Methods: With MDB, a person is able to collect his/her health data andshare it with the whole medical industry according to his/her own preferences and setting.Besides the technology for handing numerous forms of health care data, the main challengeof NHIX system is to allow individuals and associated medical entities to manage and sharetheir medical information based on personal control and preferences given to each by medicallaws, information rights and privacy rules. The main focus in this research paper is to make astandard medical application for the medical data that is in exchangeable format according tothe standards defined in HL7. Results: The new system is able to make standardized Clinicaldocument for medical data in exchangeable format according to HL7 standard. The MDB isthe first step to setup NHIX system. With the help of MDB “Statistical Analyzer” now the healthindustry of the country can perform a variety of analysis for the future improvements in differenthealth settings. Conclusions: The availability of medical data of patients on MDB cloud hasimproved Clinical Impact, created new Business & Services opportunities and reduced theoverall Treatment Cost.