Designing Electronic Medical Record System for the Ministry of Defense Command and Staff Hospital
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2015-06
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Addis Ababa University
Abstract
Electronic Medical Record is a computerized system of accessing the history of a patient’s care
within a single practice. The content of an EMR is analogous to the paper record, but the
electronic format creates usable data in medical outcome studies, improves the efficiency of
care, and makes communication among providers more efficient and easier management of
health plans.
The objective of this project was to design an electronic medical record system for the Ministry
of Defense Command and Staff Hospital.
The project used structured system analysis and design methodology with the incremental water
fall approach which includes requirement collection, analysis and design phases. Requirement
was collected using toolssuch as interviews, observation and relevant document review
techniques to collect sufficient data needed for the system to be developed. Analysis and design
of the proposed system was performed using tools like the data flow diagram, ER diagram, and
flow chart diagrams.
The current business process include registration, outpatient, laboratory and pharmacy
departments of the hospital was described in detail. According to the assessment most of the
staffs did not take training on basic computer skill and EMR system. The infrastructure of the
hospital is difficult to run the system and the internet connection is good but it is interrupted
most of the time. The numbers of the available hardware is not enough to run the system. The
new system has functionalities such as register users of system and patient personal information,
search patient information, record patient diagnosis and treatment data, register patient
laboratory and medication order. The system has also non functionality requirements such as
security, availability, maintainability and user interfaces.
Electronic medical record significantly reduces medical errors, solve illegible hand writhing of
records, improve the quality and completeness of data and increase patient satisfaction by
reducing patient waiting time. The requirements of the new system were collected using data
nonfunctional tools and techniques. The business process of the current system, functional and
nonfunctionalrequirement and system requirement were described. The analyses of the proposed
system were analyzed using the analysis model (use case diagram and use case description) and
process model (contextual and DFD) the data model of the system was presented using the entity
relationship diagram. Therefore, designing the EMR system at the hospital will lead to
significant change in giving quality of patient care and solve the current problems.
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Electronic Medical Record System