Contents

• Introduction
• What is a Patient Record System
• Purposes of a Patient Record
• Project Management of the system
• Project Management Objectives Strategies and Goals
• What are the Requirements?
• Business Requirement Patient Record
• Methodology used for the Development of Patient Record System
• Architecture Used
• A System Architectural Conceptual View
• The Automated Patient Medical Record System
• Approach Used
• Back end and frontend database architecture used
• N-Tier Architecture Components
• Technologies Used
• Research Methods Used
• Successes of the System
• Failures of the System
• Bibliography

Description

The patient record is the principal repository for information concerning a patient's health care. It affects, in some way, virtually everyone associated with providing, receiving, or reimbursing health care services. Despite the many technological advances in health care over the past few decades, the typical patient record of today is remarkably similar to the patient record of 50 years ago. This failure of patient records to evolve is now creating additional stress within the already burdened National Health Service (NHS) as the information needs of practitioners,1 patients, administrators, third-party payers, researchers, and policymakers often go unmet. As described by Ellwood (1988:1550), Patient record improvement could make major contributions to improving the health care system of this nation.