This paper presents the design and development of a health information system following the requirements of Spanish law as well as physicians and patients. In Spain, these systems are relatively new because, until rec...This paper presents the design and development of a health information system following the requirements of Spanish law as well as physicians and patients. In Spain, these systems are relatively new because, until recently, ownership of patients＇ medical records belonged to the health institution. The proposed system gives patients all the information about their medical records, online. The difference from other initiatives is that the hospital provides patients with information and the latter are responsible for its future use. Importantly, this application allows physicians to carry out a personalized and individualized monitoring and treatment of each patient. The tests were conducted with real patients, all with a chronic disease （to show each patient the personalized data）. They all expressed their appreciation of this application＇s usefulness, and obtained satisfaction level was very high. Thanks to having medical information stored on the proposed system, it can be provided to other specialists to improve the knowledgement about the patient.展开更多
文摘This paper presents the design and development of a health information system following the requirements of Spanish law as well as physicians and patients. In Spain, these systems are relatively new because, until recently, ownership of patients＇ medical records belonged to the health institution. The proposed system gives patients all the information about their medical records, online. The difference from other initiatives is that the hospital provides patients with information and the latter are responsible for its future use. Importantly, this application allows physicians to carry out a personalized and individualized monitoring and treatment of each patient. The tests were conducted with real patients, all with a chronic disease （to show each patient the personalized data）. They all expressed their appreciation of this application＇s usefulness, and obtained satisfaction level was very high. Thanks to having medical information stored on the proposed system, it can be provided to other specialists to improve the knowledgement about the patient.
