A Novel Web-enabled Healthcare Solution on HealthVault System

  • Authors:
  • Lingxia Liao;Min Chen;Joel J. Rodrigues;Xiaorong Lai;Son Vuong

  • Affiliations:
  • The University of British Columbia, Vancouver, Canada;Seoul National University, Seoul, South Korea;Instituto de Telecomunicações, University of Beira Interior, Covilhã, Portugal;Confederal Networks Inc, Renton, USA 98056;The University of British Columbia, Vancouver, Canada

  • Venue:
  • Journal of Medical Systems
  • Year:
  • 2012

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Abstract

Complicated Electronic Medical Records (EMR) systems have created problems in systems regarding an easy implementation and interoperability for a Web-enabled Healthcare Solution, which is normally provided by an independent healthcare giver with limited IT knowledge and interests. An EMR system with well-designed and user-friendly interface, such as Microsoft HealthVault System used as the back-end platform of a Web-enabled healthcare application will be an approach to deal with these problems. This paper analyzes the patient oriented Web-enabled healthcare service application as the new trend to delivery healthcare from hospital/clinic-centric to patient-centric, the current e-healthcare applications, and the main backend EMR systems. Then, we present a novel web-enabled healthcare solution based on Microsoft HealthVault EMR system to meet customers' needs, such as, low total cost, easily development and maintenance, and good interoperability. A sample system is given to show how the solution can be fulfilled, evaluated, and validated. We expect that this paper will provide a deep understanding of the available EMR systems, leading to insights for new solutions and approaches driven to next generation EMR systems.