The advancements in the field of medication and healthcare are based on the advancement in the internet technology. High speed internet connections around the world have made many un-achievable tasks possible today. Internet globally connected the world making it a global village. Communication methods in the form of voice, video and data allowed different aspects of human interaction and communication to get new horizons. It has also revealed the concept of virtualization. Things done physically in the past, requiring traveling expanse, wastage of time and money can now be done virtually from home without need for traveling and at minimum expanse.
Now a days for modern hospital management web applications deploy the use of web and internet technology which is aimed at delivering automated and digitized hospital management, doctor and patient relevant information to be stored, accessed and secured at one platform. This is done through web application development technique, to deliver space for administration, management, doctors and patients accessed at any platform.
Such product idea is equally beneficial for doctors, patients and management staff. The report will define the options and capability of the app for each single entity involved. The major advantages and revolution it brings to human health using EMRs, EHRs and E-Health systems are the major factors that push us into this field to develop application that can help people save their lives. With the development in IT sector, higher speed broadband internet connections and a race in competition of web apps development are incentive that motivate a lot of developers from around the globe to participate in this rapidly developing field which has changed the face of medication entirely. Saving time is another critical aspect that makes EHR systems more useful. As discussed earlier it saves critical time for doctors and allows them to deal with more patients. Hence the cost of doctor’s precious time can be rewarded in terms of money to the developer for developing such a useful application. Cases have been registered where many patients have passed away just because of not having proper medical records, missing of reports and improper or not sufficient data for doctors to decide in critical conditions where patient has minimum time to survive. So this system brings a new hope, as all the medical history, number of times for visiting doctors, medication and diseases diagnostics all available instantly electronically. Different developers have put their efforts in achieving the smart applications for hospital and medical management, few of which are as follows:
Java One:
It is the demonstration of EHR on Java Card 3.0 technology based devices, developed in a consortium by Inria and Gemalto, and supported by ANR with experimental deployments supported by a French Authority. This system ensures EHR system based on Java cards with centralized server, smart badge and a smart Java card USB using DBMS. Its availability is ensured at patient’s home even without a need for Internet connection, so that patient can use his Smart Java Card to view his medical information and history. Works are in a centralized system for a centralized database and server to ensure good cooperation among all the elements but with protection requirement for sensitive data sharing. For central server, patients may not directly be connected, rather it is meant for doctors and medical staff to work in close collaboration to sort out problem and ensure better treatment. Patient can though access the server using Web App specially designed for his Java Card. It allows him to synchronized and authenticated from the server using HTTPS protocol and internet connection.
Doctors have smart badges that is similar to Java Card but it is used to upload patient’s data and information through his Java Card and this data is then transferred to centralized server by the doctors for analysis and treatment.
AdvancedMD:
Advanced MD is a medical company that provides cloud based solution for EHR and medical finance. The company has more than 620,000 clients globally. It is designed typically to assist doctors, patients, nurses and other relevant staff in hospitals. It allows patient care and practice profitability through EHR and financial management. It enables physicians to save much time and practice more. Web based software can be accessed from any where around the world. Financial and Patient information is stored and access in secure Data Centers. Its powerful features include:
Electronic Charging by recording patients visit and service provided and other Medicare directly forwarded to finance on the same application to generate corresponding billing. Doctors and finance managers can view the economic status of their system at any particular time.
The online screen of the app allows multiple tasks to be done like:
Patients can access their portal online during the treatment and medication along with proper precautions to take, eating habits information and special alerts to make patient informed of his recovery and treatment.
A better way to design similar apps there should include following basic features. It will be a guide line for app developers:
1)-Administration Management:
Administration Management feature allows the Application user to control the entire EHR system. Basically it allows the access of database of patients, doctors and about administration and management itself. The application is designed such that it provides easy graphical interface for accessing the records in database.
2)-Registration:
Registration is the most important element of every database which contains information systems. Since the application holds up data relevant to doctors and patients, so login or registration forms are created to contain some important and basic information.
3)-Patient's Panel:
Patients are allowed to enter their requested information and see their medical record and information by finding all these information through the specific path specified for them, i-e “Patient Side” button. This makes the doctors to find any patient’s record available with his primary data relevant to his medical history and information about the disease. Patients can also find and edit their accounts for changing the basic information about them.
4)-Doctor's Panel:
Doctor is allowed to check any of his patients by their name, shows off the complete information and record of the particular patient. The patients medical history, on going medications, disease information, medical reports and other information. But first doctor need to register himself on the web for this application. He can also edit and re-enter his own record.
5)-Logout from App:
Security is main consideration in developing online apps. So login and logout for every person using this app is created.
6)-Authorized User:
It is also associated with security. Every concerned person for whom the app is designed needs to first enter his/her complete information as requested by the software program and then stored in a database. This is how users are authorized for using the app. They get access to their required information by using user name and passwords.
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