Effective management of chronic diseases is a global health priority.
A healthcare information system offers opportunities to address challenges of chronic disease management. However, the requirements of health information systems are often not well understood. The accuracy of requirements has a direct impact on the successful design and implementation of a health information system. Our research describes methods used to understand the requirements of health information systems for advanced prostate cancer management. The research conducted a survey to identify heterogeneous sources of clinical records. Our research showed that the General Practitioner was the common source of patient's clinical records (41%) followed by the Urologist (14%) and other clinicians (14%). Our research describes a method to identify diverse data sources and proposes a novel patient journey browser prototype that integrates disparate data sources.
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Reference: Conf Proc IEEE Eng Med Biol Soc. 2012 Aug;2012:5895-8.
doi: 10.1109/EMBC.2012.6347335
PubMed Abstract
PMID: 23367270
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