An innovative electronic health record system for rare and complex diseases

There exists a large number of rare and complex diseases that are neglected due to the difficulty in diagnosis and treatment. Being rare, they normally do not justify the costs of developing an especialized Electronic Health Record (EHR) system to assist doctors and patients of these diseases. In th...

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Published in:BMC bioinformatics 2015-12, Vol.16 (S19), Article S4
Main Authors: Faria-Campos, Alessandra C, Hanke, Lucas A, Batista, Paulo HS, Garcia, Vinicius, Campos, Sñrgio VA
Format: Article
Language:English
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Computer programs
Electronic records
Knowledge management
Medical records
Science
Technology application
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Summary:There exists a large number of rare and complex diseases that are neglected due to the difficulty in diagnosis and treatment. Being rare, they normally do not justify the costs of developing an especialized Electronic Health Record (EHR) system to assist doctors and patients of these diseases. In this work we propose the use of Computer applications known as Laboratory Information Management Systems (LIMS) to address this issue. In this work we describe a fully customizable EHR system that uses a workflow based LIMS with an easy to adapt interface for data collection and retrieval. This system can easily be customized to manage different types of medical data. The customization for a new disease can be done in a few hours with the help of a specialist. We have used the proposed system to manage data from patients of three complex diseases: neuromyelitis optica, paracoccidioidomycosis and adrenoleukodistrofy. These diseases have very different symptoms, exams, diagnostics and treatments, but the FluxMED system is able to manage these data in a highly specialized manner without any modifications to its code.
ISSN:1471-2105
1471-2105
DOI:10.1186/1471-2105-16-S19-S4