Development of an automatic medical summary report system.
We developed a medical summary report system. In this system, each department can specify the predetermined conditions for issuing the summary report. The summary is made through a hierarchical database in the integrated hospital information system according to the predetermined conditions. The summary automatically issued after reception of the outpatient, or also issued by on-line summary report program with the patient number if requested by doctors. The report is sent to the proper consulting room from the reception desk using an air-shooter. The report contains the patient information such as a patient name, age, sex, birthday, a clinic name, a chart number, a patient number, diagnoses and examinations. The doctors can refer to the points of the clinical history of the patient in his own and other departments, and make a correct diagnoses and avoid the overlaps of the examinations and medications. This system has contributed to the quality-up of the patient care by availability of patient information even in other departments without the medical chart.
Shimada
M
M
Kyushu University Hospital, Fukuoka, Japan.
Akazawa
K
K
Higashi
H
H
Watanabe
Y
Y
Hayashi
Y
Y
Moriguchi
S
S
Fujisawa
K
K
Nose
Y
Y
D006751:Hospital Information Systems; D007564:Japan; D008499:Medical Records / Q000592:standards*; D008500:Medical Records Department, Hospital / Q000458:organization & administration*; D008962:Models, Theoretical; D010044:Outpatient Clinics, Hospital / Q000458:organization & administration*