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S. Frnot, F. Laforest
Medical Record Management Systems: Criticisms and New Perspectives
Keywords: Computerized Medical Record, Structured Documents, Software Architecture, Genericity
The first generation of computerized medical records stored the data as text, but these records did not bring any improvement in information manipulation. The use of a relational database management system (DBMS) has largely solved this problem as it allows for data requests by using SQL. However, this requires data structuring which is not very appropriate to medicine. Moreover, the use of templates and icon user interfaces has introduced a deviation from the paper-based record (still existing). The arrival of hypertext user interfaces has proven to be of interest to fill the gap between the paper-based medical record and its electronic version. We think that further improvement can be accomplished by using a fully document-based system. We present the architecture, advantages and disadvantages of classical DBMS-based and Web/DBMS-based solutions. We also present a document-based solution and explain its advantages, which include communication, security, flexibility and genericity.
Methods of Information in Medicine, Schattauer
Print ISSN: 0026-1270
Volume: 38, 06/1999
Pages: 89 - 95