Follow-Up Decision Support Tool for Public Healthcare: A Design Research Perspective / 대한의료정보학회지

OBJECTIVES: Mobile health (m-Health) technologies may provide an appropriate follow-up support service for patient groups with post-treatment conditions. While previous studies have introduced m-Health methods for patient care, a smart system that may provide follow-up communication and decision support remains limited to the management of a few specific types of diseases. This paper introduces an m-Health solution in the current climate of increased demand for electronic information exchange. METHODS: Adopting a novel design science research approach, we developed an innovative solution model for post-treatment follow-up decision support interaction for use by patients and physicians and then evaluated it by using convergent interviewing and focus group methods. RESULTS: The cloud-based solution was positively evaluated as supporting physicians and service providers in providing post-treatment follow-up services. Our framework provides a model as an artifact for extending care service systems to inform better follow-up interaction and decision-making. CONCLUSIONS: The study confirmed the perceived value and utility of the proposed Clinical Decision Support artifact indicating that it is promising and has potential to contribute and facilitate appropriate interactions and support for healthcare professionals for future follow-up operationalization. While the prototype was developed and tested in a developing country context, where the availability of doctors is limited for public healthcare, it was anticipated that the prototype would be user-friendly, easy to use, and suitable for post-treatment follow-up through mobility in remote locations.

Research on the current electronic health record data access at home and abroad / 中华医院管理杂志

The open access of electronic health record(EHR) is an important link to promote the construction and application of EHR. Starting with the definition of open data of EHR, the authors discussed the content and form of open data of electronic health records, summarized the advanced experiences of countries with higher openness of EHR in the United States, the United Kingdom and Denmark. This paper combined the current situation that the opening of EHR in China is limited within data access instead of data utilization. It also pointed out such problems in the opening of EHR in China, as unclear data ownership, weak health awareness of residents and lack of unified construction standards.From the point of view of the state and medical institutions, this paper put forward a series of policy suggestions, such as issuing standards to standardize the opening of EHR, implementing patient real-name certification, realizing the overall opening of regional platforms, and linking the scope of application and supervision with the content of data opening.