Creating secured electronic medical record framework for mobile devices

This demo will demonstrate implementation of a secured EMR (Electronic Medical Record) system that can be used by Physicians, Nurses, Patient Care Technician and Dietician in a Dialysis Center setting. Although substantial work has been done for applications using a desktop browser, only few operations have been implemented on mobile devices. The line between the native and web application development does not have to be crystal clear and there could be a third model which is gradually evolving in creating a hybrid application that could combine strengths of both the native and web technology. The EMR set up consisting of an iPod, an iPhone and a desktop browser and shown in Figure 1, provides a workflow for a patient coming for a dialysis treatment, accounts for Patient Demographics, track orders written by Physicians, keep current intake of medications and sends notifications to Physicians and Nurses on record updates. All modules have numerous functions such as add, edit and view. We show the user's login following patient's demographics screen in Figure 2 and Figure 3 respectively. The top-level menu items consist of Patient, Search and E-sign modules. Figure 3 shows the “Add Patient” option from the menu. Once the patient is served, the user can search for a specific patient and get an extended menu items as shown in Figure 4. These menu items include editing a patient, add/edit physician's and standing orders, add/edit home and in-center medications. Once the patient extended information has been saved, the patient is ready for a dialysis treatment. A complete workflow for the treatment is captured with the workflow module as illustrated in Figure 5.