Healthc Inform Res.  2014 Jul;20(3):231-235. 10.4258/hir.2014.20.3.231.

Development of Mobile Platform Integrated with Existing Electronic Medical Records

• Kim Y
• Kim SS
• Kang S
• Kim K
• Kim J

• KMID: 2284587
• DOI: http://doi.org/10.4258/hir.2014.20.3.231

Abstract

OBJECTIVES
This paper describes a mobile Electronic Medical Record (EMR) platform designed to manage and utilize the existing EMR and mobile application with optimized resources.
METHODS
We structured the mEMR to reuse services of retrieval and storage in mobile app environments that have already proven to have no problem working with EMRs. A new mobile architecture-based mobile solution was developed in four steps: the construction of a server and its architecture; screen layout and storyboard making; screen user interface design and development; and a pilot test and step-by-step deployment. This mobile architecture consists of two parts, the server-side area and the client-side area. In the server-side area, it performs the roles of service management for EMR and documents and for information exchange. Furthermore, it performs menu allocation depending on user permission and automatic clinical document architecture document conversion.
RESULTS
Currently, Severance Hospital operates an iOS-compatible mobile solution based on this mobile architecture and provides stable service without additional resources, dealing with dynamic changes of EMR templates.
CONCLUSIONS
The proposed mobile solution should go hand in hand with the existing EMR system, and it can be a cost-effective solution if a quality EMR system is operated steadily with this solution. Thus, we expect this example to be shared with hospitals that currently plan to deploy mobile solutions.

Keyword

Mobile Applications; Electronic Health Records; Information Storage and Retrieval

MeSH Terms

Electronic Health Records*
Hand
Information Storage and Retrieval
Mobile Applications

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  Figure 1 Overview of mobile architecture. API: application programming interface, XAML: extensible application markup language, HIS: hospital information system, APP: application, SQL: structured query language.

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  Figure 2 Medical record within the existing Electronic Medical Record (EMR) and mobile solution.

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  Figure 3 Flowchart of clinical document and information exchange in mobile architecture. XML: extensible markup language, HTML: hypertext markup language.

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