Design Electronic Medical Record Management System for Neonatal Intensive Care Unit of Yekatit 12 Hospital Medical College
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2017-06
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Addis Ababa University
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Background: Electronic Medical Record is defined as a computerized medical record used to capture, store, and share information among healthcare providers in an organization, supporting the delivery of health services to patients. It is perceived as a way to improve healthcare quality through improving work flow, reducing medical errors, minimizing cost and treatment time, increasing revenue, improving patient care by creating a better linkage to all care givers.
Most medical records are kept on paper. This makes it difficult to use the available information for management of care, measuring of quality of care and improving care delivery. The healthcare industry is mostly data driven and it depends on the accuracy and availability of the data and since most of the data is on paper format, this limits access to the data by healthcare providers.
Objectives: The General Objective of this project is to design an EMR management system and to develop prototype of an EMR management system for Neonatal Intensive Care Unit of Yekatit 12 Hospital Medical College.
Methodology: This project used the Object-oriented analysis and design system development technique and different data collection tools (interview, document analysis and observation) were used to collect requirement for the system to be developed. Analysis and design of the proposed system was done by using the Unified Modeling Language and the tools used were, Microsoft Visio 2013, Visual paradigm, Microsoft visual studio 2012 and SQL database server.
Summary: The designed NICU Record Management System consists of registration of different Neonatal patient data such as patient demographic data, clinical data such as Vital signs, Diagnosis, Treatments, Progress note, Discharge summery, Nursing care plan, laboratory results and patient appointments and provides decision support for vital signs and laboratories. Generally the designed NICU Electronic Medical Record Management System could enhance accessibility of data or patient information with the reduction of the unnecessary time wasted to search patient information and to compile reports, and it makes timely use of information by decision makers, which improves the current service.
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Electronic Medical Record is defined