Design and Development of a Cloud-Based Electronic Medical Records (EMR) System

Abstract

An Electronic Medical Record System is an electronic record management tool that helps to manage the flow of patient files within a hospital, as well as improving the efficiency of the patient lifecycle and optimization of the record retrieval process. There seems to be a relationship between delayed access to a healthcare service and mortality rate. The problem of managing patient time, quick access to records, patient workflow coordination, ineffective retrieval of records, and depleting storage spaces for already digitized files are some of the issues this work seeks to address. This project is implemented in two parts. The first part deals with the design and implementation of an automated records system. The second part deals with the utilization of better storage capabilities, more flexible scalability, and access to gold standard security for the application, talking about cloud technology. The implementation requirement includes the use of client-side tools and server-side scripting languages, as well as a hosting platform. The client-side tools include HTML, CSS, Javascript, and jquery. PHP was used as the server-side scripting while MySQL served as the database. The application is hosted on Heroku Cloud Platform. The proposed system addresses the aforementioned problems.