Proposal of a Standardized Electronic Health Record for Kingdom of Saudi Arabia

Hussain Mohammad Abu-Dalbouh,Arwa Al-Handi,Norah Al-Zwaid,Memonah Al-Matrouk

doi:10.3844/jcssp.2019.566.581

Abstract

Electronic Health Records are electronic versions of patients’ healthcare records. An electronic health record gathers, creates and stores the health record electronically. The electronic health record has been slow to be adopted by healthcare providers. The proposed electronic health record will improve clinical documentation, quality, healthcare utilization tracking, billing and coding and make health records portable. The core components of an electronic health record include administrative functions, computerized physician order entry, lab systems, radiology systems, pharmacy systems and clinical documentation. The proposed electronic copy of the patient's health record includes all of data and important information of the patient and the patients' history and the history of the family in cooperation with the doctor. Examples of the information available in the proposed electronic health record: Patient personal information, medications, laboratory tests results, X-rays, vital symptoms and other results. It is a website that aims to serve the health community through a standardized electronic health records for all hospitals and clinics in the Saudi Arabia Kingdom. A doctor can, through this electronic records, input and read a health record and know about health history of the patient. Consequently, it will be easy for a doctor to diagnose and treat a patient in a correct way. The proposed system is reduced medical errors through exchanging experiences among doctors and knowing drugs that conflicted with similar previous health conditions. The experimental results conclude that the working environment would be improved the performance of health professionals, reduce operation/administrative costs and enhance patient safety.

Highlights

In recent years with the numerous advances in data innovation in the technology, especially in medicinal services, various diverse types of Electronic Health Records (EHR) have been examined, created and executed
A few organizations/nations are at present arranging the presentation of an across the nation electronic health record while others have really actualized some type of EHR
The sort and degree of electronic health records shift and what one nation calls an EHR may not be equivalent to that created in another nation

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Introduction

In recent years with the numerous advances in data innovation in the technology, especially in medicinal services, various diverse types of Electronic Health Records (EHR) have been examined, created and executed. In spite of the fact that work has been embraced by organizations/nations on some type of a modernized patient human services data framework, up until now relatively few doctor's facilities have effectively presented an electronic wellbeing record with clinical information passage at the purpose of consideration (Abu-Dalbouh, 2019; Lohr, 2009). In spite of the fact that enthusiasm for mechanizing the health record is commonly high in both developed and developing countries and again, the presentation of an EHR framework appears to be overpowering and practically distant to numerous human services suppliers and executives just as medicinal record/health data supervisors. For what reason is this so? The impediments may not be accessible innovation but rather specialized help and the expense of changing

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