A Web-Based System Supporting the Certification of the Outpatient and Emergency Departments and Providing for Post-discharge Continuity of Medical Care Software

摘要

The aim of this paper is twofold: First, to present a status report of the design and the implementation of a Web-based system, supporting the Certification of the Outpatient and the Emergency Departments. An important step, towards setting-up a Quality System, is the acquaintance of the personnel, with the documentation of processes, equipment, directives etc. in each Department, and, thus, this designed and partially implemented on-line "Certification Consultant" will help the involved hospital personnel to become familiar with the documentation and the optimization of the day to day procedures of the Outpatient and the Emergency Departments. The second aim of this project was to ensure the continuity of medical Care, of the patients discharged from the mentioned Departments, by providing simple software tools, however, complying with the E2369 (CCR), ISO 13606-1, and prEN 13940 major Standards. These tools support the creation of a reasonable Discharge Report and an attached Continuity of Care Record (CCR), which are important clinical quality features for these two Departments that constitute the active interface between the modern hospital and the society.