Automatic Retrieving Data from Medical Equipment to Create Electronic Medical Records (EMRs) for an e-Hospital Model in Vietnam

摘要

Applications of Information Technology (IT) in a healthcare management system, especially in Personal Health Records (PHRs) management has recently received a great attention in developing countries such as Vietnam [1,2]. The Vietnamese Government has implemented a special campaign to promote this process in hospitals. Several big hospitals have implemented electronic-based hospital systems, but have only concentrated on patient admission information, medical equipment management, and pharmaceutical and human resources. Besides, PHRs are rather simple, incomplete and involve much manual work [3]. Especially, many devices used in hospitals do not have digital outputs. Within our research, we have analyzed and built some methods that automatically retrieve data from medical devices and put them into EMRs. These data can be images, video, bio-parameters, waveforms, graphs, etc. This process is done by software that can be integrated into hospital information systems in Vietnam hospitals. Several modules have been tested in Khanh Luong hospital, Hanoi Vietnam.