title: A method to manage and share anti-retroviral (ARV) therapy information of human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) patients in Vietnam.
abstract: Management of antiretroviral (ARV) drug and HIV patients data is an important component of Vietnam Administration of HIV/AIDS Control (VAAC) Department and hospitals/health care units when people often travel in other places of Vietnam; therefore, it would lead to a number of medical errors in treatment as well as patients do not adhere to ARV therapy. In this paper, we describe a system that manages and shares antiretroviral therapy information of 4438 HIV patients in three healthcare centers in Hanoi capital of Vietnam. The overall design considerations, architecture and the integration of centralized database and decentralized management for the system are also presented. The findings from this study can serve as a guide to consider in the implementation model of health care to manage and share information of patients not only in HIV infection, but also in the other chronic and non-communicable diseases.
authors.affiliation: Institute of Biomedical Informatics, National Yang-Ming University, Taipei, Taiwan. alexnthhp@gmail.com
authors.forename: Phung Anh
authors.initials: PA
authors.lastname: Nguyen
authors.forename: Shabbir
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Syed-Abdul
authors.forename: Priti
authors.initials: P
authors.lastname: Minamareddy
authors.forename: Peisan
authors.initials: P
authors.lastname: Lee
authors.forename: Thuy Dieu
authors.initials: TD
authors.lastname: Ngo
authors.forename: Usman
authors.initials: U
authors.lastname: Iqbal
authors.forename: Phuong Hoang
authors.initials: PH
authors.lastname: Nguyen
authors.forename: Wen-Shan
authors.initials: WS
authors.lastname: Jian
authors.forename: Yu-Chuan Jack
authors.initials: YC
authors.lastname: Li
mesh_terms: D044966:Anti-Retroviral Agents / Q000627:therapeutic use*; D003140:Communicable Disease Control; D003195:Computer Communication Networks; D003199:Computer Systems; D016208:Databases, Factual; D057286:Electronic Health Records; D015658:HIV Infections / Q000188:drug therapy* / Q000453:epidemiology*; D006751:Hospital Information Systems; D006801:Humans; D033181:Information Dissemination / Q000379:methods*; D055118:Medication Adherence; D012984:Software; D014584:User-Computer Interface; D014744:Vietnam / Q000453:epidemiology
chemical_list: D044966:Anti-Retroviral Agents
keywords: ARV drug management; Centralized database; Decentralized management; HIV; Vietnam