MEDICAL DROP BOX (MDB)

A NATIONAL HEALTH INFORMATION EXCHANGE AND MANAGEMENT SYSTEM FOR MEDICAL INDUSTRY

Abstract

Introduction: National Health Information Exchange (NHIX) Systems are rapidly
evolving. Due to the cyber infrastructure and improvements in communication technology, it
is possible to share healthcare related data within a geographic region electronically among
healthcare related autonomous entities such as physicians, hospitals, test laboratories, insurers,
emerging Health Information Organizations (HIO), and even government departments. Study
Design: Whether data are collected with the RCT, Quasi-experimentation or Triangulation
etc., we present to explore a NHIX system for EHR that has also been implemented as a
test case. We particularly propose to demonstrate a concept application, Medical Drop Box
(MDB) with the key technological components of a future NHIX System for medical industry.
Setting: Data from different medical settings have been used for testing the new system but
the technological development has been done at IIU, Islamabad. Period: The proposed system
is not time bond in terms of data collection. Basically the proposed system can handle data
collected in any chunk of time in the history and can provide information as and when needed
in future. Material & Methods: With MDB, a person is able to collect his/her health data and
share it with the whole medical industry according to his/her own preferences and setting.
Besides the technology for handing numerous forms of health care data, the main challenge
of NHIX system is to allow individuals and associated medical entities to manage and share
their medical information based on personal control and preferences given to each by medical
laws, information rights and privacy rules. The main focus in this research paper is to make a
standard medical application for the medical data that is in exchangeable format according to
the standards defined in HL7. Results: The new system is able to make standardized Clinical
document for medical data in exchangeable format according to HL7 standard. The MDB is
the first step to setup NHIX system. With the help of MDB “Statistical Analyzer” now the health
industry of the country can perform a variety of analysis for the future improvements in different
health settings. Conclusions: The availability of medical data of patients on MDB cloud has
improved Clinical Impact, created new Business & Services opportunities and reduced the
overall Treatment Cost.