Discussion

Currently there are many systems and applications that handle Electronic Healthcare Records (EHRs). Over time these have been deployed worldwide.

Many systems and applications have been targeted to support Healthcare Practitioners. This is necessary for Practitioners but it is not sufficient to handle all Healthcare-related information for individual Patients.

Practitioners provide services to Patients, and Patients are in the best position to evaluate the services tendered. Hence, Healthcare records that do not include Patient created and updated Healthcare-related EHRs are incomplete and potentially incorrect.

This project will attempt to accomplish the following:

• perform Electronic Data Interchange (EDI) so that information contained in dissimilar EHR systems and applications can be shared.
• Patients can create and update EHRs using standard and unique record formats.
• information contained in the EHRs can be filtered and structured under Patient control to produce indormation subsets that can be transmitted to specific Practitioners and individuals.
• Security mechanisms supporting strict Patient control will be developed.