Designing an Electronic Medical Record System for Amanuel Hospital
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2014-06
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Addis Ababa University
Abstract
Introduction: EMR 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 for more efficient communication among providers and easier management of health
plans.
Objective: The objective of this project was to Design an Electronic Medical Record System
for Amanuel Mental Specialized Hospital.
Method: 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 the following tools (interview, 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 diagram.
Discussion of result: The current business process in Registration, Outpatient, Laboratory and
Pharmacy departments of the hospital was described detail. According to the assessment most
of the staffs didn’t 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 however most of
time it is interrupted. The numbers of hardware are not enough to run the system. The new
system will have 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 will have also non functionality
requirements such as security, availability, maintainability and user interfaces issues.
Conclusion: Electronic medical record significantly reduces medical errors, solve illegible hand
writing 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 collection tools and techniques. The business process of the current system,
functional and non functional requirement and system requirement were described. The analysis
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