title: A comprehensive infectious disease management system.
abstract: An efficient electronic management system is now an essential tool for the successful management and monitoring of those affected by communicable infectious diseases (Human Immunodeficiency Virus - HIV, hepatitis C - HEP C) during the course of the treatment. The current methods which depend heavily on manual collecting, compiling and disseminating treatment information are labor-intensive and time consuming. Clinics specialized in the treatment of infectious diseases use a mix of electronic systems that fail to interact with each other, result in data duplication, and do not support treatment of the patient as a whole. The purpose of the Infectious Disease Management System is to reduce the administrative overhead associated with data collection and analysis while providing correlation abilities and decision support in accordance with defined treatment guidelines. This Infectious Disease Management System was developed to: Ensure cost effectiveness by means of low software licensing costs, Introduce a centralized mechanism of collecting and monitoring all infectious disease management data, Automate electronic retrieval of laboratory findings, Introduce a decision support mechanism as per treatment guidelines, Seamlessly integrate of application modules, Provide comprehensive reporting capabilities, Maintain a high level of user friendliness.
authors.affiliation: MDIT Innovations Incorporated, Vancouver, BC, Canada.
authors.forename: Alex
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Marcu
authors.forename: John D
authors.initials: JD
authors.lastname: Farley
mesh_terms: D003140:Communicable Disease Control / Q000458:organization & administration*; D017598:Efficiency, Organizational; D015658:HIV Infections / Q000188:drug therapy; D006526:Hepatitis C / Q000188:drug therapy; D006801:Humans; D008490:Medical Informatics / Q000458:organization & administration*