Designing of electronic records for patients admitted to the women ward of Imam Hossein Hospital (Phase I)

The electronic data recording technology is used in many developed countries to provide a better service to patients. Since promotion of women's health is one of the important issues of healthcare organizations, the purpose of this project, at the first phase, was to design a database and to make an entry of electronic records of patients admitted to the women's ward of Imam-Hossein Hospital.
In system design, it was tried to get information without the need for user involvement, as much as possible. Also In this phase, the data required for registration, processing, and reporting, and also their metadata were determined. System architecture is based on object-oriented methods and the result is client-server software, in which the calculations are pre-designed and shared between the client and the server. It was designed by examining the system requirements, as well as considering the volume and amount of data recorded in the SQL Server database software. Database communication methods, access control and security systems were also designed.
The database and tables and then the user interface were designed and optimized in several stages. At the end of first phase of the study, after registering of 30 patients, the output of the program in Excel format was extracted for all patients and prepared for the study purposes.
Electronic registration of all patients’ information referring to health centers in a way that can be processed, used by other health care centers, can be followed up over the time and also applicable to research projects, will improve the quality of services and reduce the cost of services.