title: A cyber medical center.
abstract: This paper describes the design and implementation of a Cyber Medical Center (CMC) using web technology. The intention is to overcome the inefficiency of the traditional filing system for patients' medical records, which are considered to be time and space consuming. Another objective is to enhance the interaction between the user - the patient in this case - and the medical center personnel - the doctors and staff. This task is achieved by developing a cyber medical center interfaced with the Internet to provide direct public access. The traditional filing system is replaced by a database system for maintaining the electronic medical records of all patients in the medical center. The doctors or staff can either view the medical records or update them through the Intranet/Internet. This system has been successfully developed, implemented and tested on the Intranet platform. It will be available in a university medical center for practical use.
authors.affiliation: Computer Engineering Department, American University of Sharjah, P.0. Box 26666, Sharjah, UAE. aali@ausharjah.edu
authors.forename: A R
authors.initials: AR
authors.lastname: Al-Ali
authors.forename: A O
authors.initials: AO
authors.lastname: Abdul Salam
authors.forename: L
authors.initials: L
authors.lastname: Al-Zohlof
authors.forename: M
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Manna
authors.forename: R
authors.initials: R
authors.lastname: Zakaria
mesh_terms: D003198:Computer Simulation; D020407:Internet; D008498:Medical Record Linkage; D016347:Medical Records Systems, Computerized