[Development of electronic medical recording system for clinics using the internet based on patient participation in pursuit of NBM].
The current medical system does not allow sufficient time for medical interviews, a situation that can create problems in patient-doctor relationships and result in a variety of problems. The importance of narrative based medicine (NBM) has been raised as a result of the overemphasis on evidence based medicine (EBM) in recent years. From this point of view, we have developed an electronic medical recording (EMR) system for clinics that uses the Internet and is based on patient participation, in pursuit of NBM. This system enables the patient to report information prior to the face-to-face interview with his or her doctor. In this way, the patient has more time to summarize and explain physical conditions and concerns. These reports from patients are automatically saved to the EMR database, without any additional workload. Therefore, this system will provide more effective communication between patient and doctor. In addition, the doctor is able to receive the results of medical treatment directly, in addition to the patient's other records. These sets of records will contribute to more efficient operation of the clinic. At this time, we have improved this system on the assumption that outsourcing the server will avoid the burden of maintenance. This prototype system uses a personal identification number (PIN) and an encode/decode algorithm for security. The secure PIN enables us to use conventional e-mail. Through experimental clinical testing, the effects on mutual understanding in medical examinations were studied. We are confident that this system based on patient narratives will contribute greatly to the spread of EMR systems for clinics operated by family physicians.
Omatsu
Masahiko
M
Kitasato University Graduate School of Medical Sciences.
Tachibana
Hidenobu
H
Umeda
Tokuo
T
D004582:Electronics, Medical; D006801:Humans; D020407:Internet; D016347:Medical Records Systems, Computerized; D033262:Narration; D010358:Patient Participation; D010817:Physician-Patient Relations; D010821:Physicians, Family; D011320:Primary Health Care