ABSTRACT
Medical information, such as physicians' descriptions, nursing records, and various examination reports, is stored separately in the subsystems of an electronic medical record (EMR). To provide efficient treatment, health professionals require a universal viewer that collectively organizes and visualizes this distributed information at each clinical phase (i.e., first outpatient visit, treatment, follow-up observation, etc.). This research investigates a method to enable physicians to easily browse relevant information at each clinical phase, and to reflect and verify information in a universal viewer. We analyzed the patterns of picture archiving and communication system (PACS) reference logs and EMR performed orders to identify relevant information. We found that by considering the locations of display terminals in addition to disease types (clinical departments) and clinical phases, more relevant information could be identified, and the contents displayed on a universal viewer were improved accordingly.
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Physicians , Radiology Information Systems , Computers , Electronic Health Records , HumansABSTRACT
Our hospital started the charged particle therapy since 1996. New institutions for charged particle therapy are planned in the world. Our hospital are accepting many visitors from those newly planned medical institutions and having many opportunities to provide with the training to them. Based upon our experiences, we have developed the radiation oncology teaching files system for charged particle therapy. We adopted the PowerPoint of Microsoft as a basic framework of our teaching files system. By using our export function of the viewer any physician can create teaching files easily and effectively. Now our teaching file system has 33 cases for clinical and physics contents. We expect that we can improve the safety and accuracy of charged particle therapy by using our teaching files system substantially.
