Chr Proposal

Project Proposal on

Citizens Health Record Anywhere anytime health information and decision support

Indian Institute of Information Technology and Management-Kerala Park Centre, Technopark, Trivandrum-695 581

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Executive Summary 1.1 Title of the project ……………………………….. 3 1.2 Project objectives………………………………… 3 1.3 Project execution agency and address……………. 3 1.4 Implementers and contact information …………... 3 1.4.1 Project Guides………………………. 3 1.4.2 Project Members……………………. 3 1.4.3 Blog Address……………………….. 4

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Introduction and RoadMap 2.1 Introduction ……………………………………… 4 2.2 Section roadmap………………………………….. 4

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Problem specification and Solution outline 3.1 Problem specification…………………………….. 5 3.1.1 Absence of electronic health record… 5 3.1.2 Non availability of central repository.. 5 3.1.3 Lack of interoperability……………... 5 3.1.4 Lack of authenticity…………………. 5 3.2 Solution outline…………………………………… 6

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Software specifications 4.1 Eclipse v3.2………………………………………. 6 4.2 MySQL v5.0.………………………………………6 4.3 Tortoise SVN v1.4.0……………………………… 7 4.4 Apache Tomcat v5.5.17……………………………7

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Deliverables……………………………………………………….7

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Project Estimation 6.1 Work Estimation…………………………………. 7

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References………………………………………………………... 8

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Executive Summary

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Title of the project Citizens Health Record

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Project objectives

The objective of our project “Citizens Health Record” is to tackle this serious problem. Citizens Health Record (CHR) is a patient's medical record in an electronic format, accessible on the network for the primary purpose of providing health care and healthrelated services. Information in a CHR includes documents relating to physical and mental health and condition of a patient from birth to death, medical test reports or multimedia images, and financial and demographic information, thereby helping a general practitioner to view patients full details and also help doctor’s giving emergency treatment to quickly determine allergies and previous histories of diseases. The CHR also guarantees security as well as authenticity of the data. 1.3

Project execution agency and address

Indian Institute of Information Technology and Management Kerala, Park Center, Technopark, Kariavottam P.O. Trivandrum, Kerala 695581 INDIA. Tel: +91-471-2700777, Fax: +91-471-2527568. 1.4

Implementers and contact information 1.4.1 Project guides Dr. Lincoln Choudhury:[email protected] Dr. Shailaja Tetali : [email protected] 1.4.2 Project members Anish S.Anand Mary Jain P.A Mary Sindhura Rejoy Bhaskar

: [email protected] : [email protected] : [email protected] : [email protected] 3

1.4.3 Blog address http://citizens-health-record.blogspot.com

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Introduction and Roadmap Introduction

Health is one of the key factors of success. Without proper health a human being can’t be fully happy and satisfied. For a person to stay health he has to have healthy foods, have regular check ups and have proper medications, which can be ensured through a proper medical record. These days it will be very difficult to keep the paper records, which are scattered. If you try to keep all the records yourself, can you be sure you will always have your records with you in an emergency? But these problems can be solved if it is properly electronically recorded and web based. If such a system is implemented, the concern doctor or we can access our records relating to health wherever we are and at any time. In developed countries like US, a proper well recorded and documented data base that consist of all records of the patient from birth to death. With the help of these records the doctor can access the patient record from birth. In India, we do not have proper system that work with proper interoperability. That is, in some hospitals it may be in paper and where as in some other hospital it will be electronically recorded. But there is no system that ensures that a patient can access these records at the same time in same format. Citizens health record allows us to solve all these problems without putting much effort. 2.2

Section roadmap

This section describes the road map to the rest of the document. Section 3 deals with the problem specification and solution outline that we have proposed. Section 4 describes the technologies used to solve the problem. Section 5 specifies the deliverables of the 4

project. Section 6 computes the work estimate needed to complete the project. Section 7 handles the references that helped us in preparing this project proposal.

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Problem specification and Solution outline

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Problem specification It deals with the following problems 3.1.1 Absence of Electronic Health Record.

In our country, where the medical records are hard copied, there is no proper system that provides electronic health record. Due to the absence of such a system, it will be very difficult for the current doctor to access his patient’s previous medications and related health problems. 3.1.2 Non availability of central repository Since there is no central repository, the present health record system is a scattered one. Therefore, all the relevant data cannot be easily searched. 3.1.3 Lack of interoperability Retrieval of patient’s medical information is not possible when needed due to lack of interoperability among hospitals and across nations. 3.1.4 Lack of authenticity The record can only be used by trained doctors and not by other health care professionals who are involved in health care like pharmacist, nurses, laboratory technicians, and village level workers.

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Solution outline

In order to address the above problems one need to develop a comprehensive citizen health record which can gather all health related events from birth to death and can be used by multiple users playing different roles in health care system. The characteristics of Citizen health record are as follows 1. Comprehensive electronic health record that records all the health related events. 2. Capacity to store all the data from birth to death of one individual. 3. Geographic information about access of health care. 4. Authenticated access to citizen health record. 5. Based on HL-7 Standard. 6. Multiple users exists each having different data entry capability.

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Software specifications Eclipse v3.2

It is open source software focused on providing vendor – neutral open development platform and application frameworks for building software. Eclipse based tools give developers freedom of choice in a multi-language, multi-platform, multi-vendor environment. Eclipse provides a plug-in based framework that makes it easier to create, integrate and utilize software tools, saving time and money. 4.2

MYSQL v5.0

It is the world’s most popular open source database that is known for its consistent fast performance, high reliability and ease of use.

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Tortoise SVN v1.4.0

TortoiseSVN is a really easy to use Revision control / version control source control software for Windows. Since it's not integrated for a specific IDE you can use it with whatever development tools you like. Its features are easy to use, and it supports all subversion protocols. 4.3

Apache Tomcat v5.5.17

Apache Tomcat is the Servlet container that is used in the official Reference Implementation for the Java Servlet and Java Server Pages technologies. The Java Servlet and Java Server Pages specifications are developed by Sun under the Java Community Process. Apache Tomcat is developed in an open and participatory environment and released under the Apache Software License.

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Deliverables

It is difficult to spell out quantitative outputs at this stage but there will certainly be substantial qualitative improvements in maintaining the present health records. • Improved understanding of health problems. • Software requirement specification will be provided at later stages. • The final project will be delivered along with a source code, documentation (user manual, system implementation).

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Project Estimation Work Estimation

We four have planned to do the project in the following manner. We have just two months to complete this work. Each of the project members will devote two hours daily in weekdays and four hours in weekends.

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Weekdays: Weekends:

Time devoted = 4(members) * 2 Hrs = 8 Hrs Time devoted = 4(members) * 4 Hrs = 16 Hrs

8*5(days in week)*8 (weeks in two months) + 8*2(days in week)*8 (weeks in two months)

= 576 Hrs

Number of person hour per day

= 576/ 24 = 24 days

Activities Requirement Analysis Research System design Implementation Testing Documentation Deployment Total

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Time (in person hour per day) 5 2 4 6 2 2 3 24

References

http://williamyasnoff.com/?p=21 http://www.rainforestinfo.org.au/projects/ADS-health.htm http://www.openmrs.org http://www.openehr.org/ http://www.connectingforhealth.nhs.uk/delivery/programmes/nhscrs http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Electronic_health_record

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