Standard Healthcare Record for Disease: Cancer

Abstract

The important aspect of medical research and development is maintaining patient’s medical records for diagnosis, and treatment. These records play a very important role in the hospital management system. Nowadays, it is difficult to keep and query the traditional paper based medical records. Consider two doctors A and B who work in hospitals X and Y respectively. Hospitals X and Y have their own unique standard formats for storing medical records. In this case, Dr A may experience difficulty in understanding the report of a patient stored in the database of Hospital Y. Likewise, B would experience the same problem w.r.t Hospital X. This problem gets even worse when a patient’s case is to be transferred to an international doctor who may find it difficult to understand a local doctor’s report schema. Our project overcomes many of the problems faced in other software due to the lack of security, interoperability, accessibility, data management, and many other issues. It provides an electronic centralized database of patient records in an encrypted format which increases security and provides a user-friendly environment with the help of HL7 format for sharing and ICD-10 for labelling diseases.