A Relational Method for Determining Eventual Causality in Electronic Health Records

摘要

The use of electronic health records (EHR) has been increased substantially to improve quality of healthcare outcomes. That's why recent EHR systems have been eagerly evolving from patient documentation systems toward intellectual tools for physicians to accomplish their tasks. Such evolution would mean continuous changes to the current EHR systems, which would be a real challenge since the designed software for these systems is usually customized based on prior requirements and thus having the correct workflow design is an essential key to allow system intellectuality and system automation. Such upgrade would give more realistic view to the patient medical profile by associating all related medical entities in a hierarchical order without losing the usability and performance of these systems. This new approach treats the EHR system as a storage manager, which is an important advantage from the development prospective especially for any future changes in any of the different layers.