Development of a web system to capture post-operative notes between remote health units

Abstract

The impact of the use of Information and Communication Technologies (ICT) in the Health Sector, as in many other fields, has made it possible to reform the services aimed at improving medical care, you can see the importance and positive, orderly and modern effect with which patient information is managed through standardized systems for the benefit of the population's health care. Doctors who have a technological tool that allows them to generate daily medical notes, add them to an electronic medical record of the patient and consult them later, have a great advantage over doctors who do not have a system where they can analyze a health history, the indications, diagnoses or treatments described in notes of admission, evolution, discharge, post-operative medical note, or notes of outpatient surgeries, leaving not only the doctor at a disadvantage, but also the patient who is treated without having important information for a higher quality care. This study focuses on the factors that must be addressed for an adequate implementation of an Electronic File System (SEE) in medical units that attend to patients in common, in order to contribute to modernizing the current health systems in the locality by connect two remote medical units through a web system for the management of medical information of patients.