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Development and Implementation of a Longterm Medical Documentation for Primary Care

1987; Springer Nature; Linguagem: Inglês

10.1007/978-3-642-93355-4_20

0172-7788

Otto Rienhoff, W. Küsel,

Electronic Health Records Systems

In 1935, a new concept for the documentation of medical data in private doctor’s offices was formulated. It requires (for optimal utilization) that the doctor himself corresponds with the system via a keyboard. One principal screen is used for medical documentation. It allows not only to work with and add actual data but also to scroll through historical data at the same time. By adding actual medical data or by copying sets of historical data (e.g. old prescriptions) special actions can be initialised (e.g. print of a new prescription) without moving to another screen. A prerequisite for this type of documentation is a well designed set of programming and documentation tools. They allow to adapt the user-interface of the system to the individual needs of the specific doctor’s office. The approach tries to structure medical data and to utilize archiving functions rather than to rely on continuously growing actual files on larger and larger disks. The concepts described in this paper have been mapped since 1985 into a new doctor’s office computer system developed by SIEMENS. The System SISYMED runs on a 32 bit multi-user microcomputer under SINIX. It is programmed in C.