EEMI - An Electronic Health Record for Pediatricians

Abstract

The use of paper health records and handwritten prescriptions are prone to preset errors of misunderstanding instructions or interpretations that derive in affecting patients' health. Electronic Health Records (EHR) systems are useful tools that among other functions can assists physicians' tasks such as finding recommended medicines, their contraindications, and dosage for a given diagnosis, filling prescriptions and support data sharing with other systems. This paper presents EEMI, a Children EHR focused on assisting pediatricians in their daily office practice. EEMI functionality keeps the relationships among diagnosis, treatment, and medications. EEMI also calculates dosages and automatically creates prescriptions which can be personalized by the physician. The system also validates patient allergies. This paper also presents the current use of EHRs in Mexico, the Mexican Norm (NOM-024-SSA3-2010), standards for the development of electronic medical records and its relationships with other standards for data exchange and data representation in the health area.

Analysis of barriers of mHealth adoption in the context of sustainable operational practices in health care supply chains

“…Healthcare workers are facing difficulties according to proper regulation-based research into electronic health records (Medhanyie et al. , 2015; Lavariega et al. , 2016); a lack of interoperability with digital systems (Swain and Muduli, 2023); integrated health data, security and exchange of information amongst providers (Gleason, 2015); legal risks, social and cultural problems (Nebeker et al.…”

“…This makes them less inclined to use mHealth technologies (Medhanyie et al. , 2015; Lavariega et al. , 2016; Kao and Liebovitz, 2017).…”

“…Despite broad technological advancements, the adoption of new technologies, particularly mHealth, is now hindered by a lack of suitable evidence-based and tailored methods (Steinhubl et al, 2013(Steinhubl et al, , 2015. Healthcare workers are facing difficulties according to proper regulation-based research into electronic health records (Medhanyie et al, 2015;Lavariega et al, 2016); a lack of interoperability with digital systems (Swain and Muduli, 2023); integrated health data, security and exchange of information amongst providers (Gleason, 2015); legal risks, social and cultural problems (Nebeker et al, 2017). Interstate medical licencing regulations continue to be difficult leading to a lack of political willpower (Weinstein et al, 2014); women and girls are facing problems in policy implementation in rural areas (Parajuli and Doneys, 2017); barriers to self-management of healthcare resulting from privacy and security concerns (Terry, 2015).…”

“…Despite having no obvious physical or cognitive barriers, healthcare workers with minimal computer literacy are unwilling to complete their jobs through mHealth applications. This makes them less inclined to use mHealth technologies (Medhanyie et al, 2015;Lavariega et al, 2016;Kao and Liebovitz, 2017). A significant barrier to the adoption of mHealth technologies is the absence of face-to-face human interactions; people still want physical interaction (Nebeker et al, 2017;Dunlop and Brewster, 2002).…”