Web based application for processing cardiology medical records

The availability of data in medicine is growing every day. However, in order to use data in medicine for data analytics, it first needs to be collected and pre-processed appropriately. The problem with medical data is often its unstructured textual form on one hand side and personal and sensitive information, which needs to be protested, on the other side. Therefore, when extracting information from this unstructured data, it is necessary to proceed sensitively, using suitable tools and methods. This paper describes the work focused on the design and implementation of a web based application as a platform for collecting and processing data from electronic health records in Slovak language and storing them in a shared database so that all legislative requirements on work with personal and sensitive data will be fulfilled. We start with analysis of the related work and identify the shortcomings of available tools and existing solutions. We further identify the requirements defined by doctors, users of our system. Based on the requirements we designed the application architecture, the user interface and the database, which further have been implemented and tested. Finally, the results of the application testing are presented and evaluated.