The paper presents software designed for medical specialists for managing their patients information. This type of software products are needed for facilitating the work of doctors. By using this type of software products, the medical specialists are able to easily record, edit and maintain their patients information, which supports diagnosis and treatment of the patients

Kordov, Krasimir

Kutsarov, Aleksandar

Todorova, Mihaela

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Mathematical and Software Engineering, Vol 5, No 2 (2019), 34–38.Varεpsilon Ltd, http://varepsilon.comPatient information software designed for medicalspecialistsMihaela Todorova1, Aleksandar Kutsarov2, and Krasimir Kordov31Konstantin Preslavsky University of Shumen, 9712 Shumen, Bulgaria, email:mihaela.todorova@shu.bg2Konstantin Preslavsky University of Shumen, 9712 Shumen, Bulgaria, email:al.kutsarov@gmail.com3Konstantin Preslavsky University of Shumen, 9712 Shumen, Bulgaria, email:krasimir.kordov@shu.bgAbstractThe paper presents software designed for medical specialists for managing their patients informa-tion. This type of software products are needed for facilitating the work of doctors. By using thistype of software products, the medical specialists are able to easily record, edit and maintain theirpatients information, which supports diagnosis and treatment of the patients.Keywords: software, medical specialists software, information system1 IntroductionThe rapid progress of information technology and the development of tools for acquiring, processing andstoring information, leads to the need for the development and operation of specialized software products[5, 6] in various fields of work. One of the most important sectors of public life is healthcare, where theproper use of technology can improve the process of managing large information flows reducing the riskof errors [1].During the last decades medical institutions implement various type of information systems in order toimprove the medical doctors’ productivity. The medical information system is a complex of technologiesand methods for the planned collection, processing, analysis, archiving and transferring medical dataand information. The goals and objectives of information systems in medicine and health care are toautomate the information process to minimize the risk of errors, accelerate the decision making process,facilitate staff in routine activities, standardized methods of information retrieval, personnel and financialmanagement, control over information, etc [1, 2]. Medical specialist are not always located in generalmedical facilities and often chose to use specific software best suited to their medical practice such asBetaGP [9], Niset-SIMP [10], Hipokrat GP [11] and Global Medics [12]. All these software productsare developed according to Bulgarian standard with option for regular archiving and exporting patientinformation to National Health Insurance Fund.Considering the small number software available for medical specialists we developed a new informa-tion system for patients data managing, consulting with medical specialist about the specific requirementsfor medical software.342 Modelling and database organization of a new informationsystemThe model of a new software for managing medical information from medical specialists is required tocontain the following functionalities:• Module for patients data - gives the medical specialists opportunity to service all primarydocuments at a new ambulatory examination• Module for reports - provides an opportunity for a combined report for all the examinationsperformed and hospitalizations• Module nomenclatures - provides list of nomenclatures for avoiding errors• Service module - allows import and export of all medical information for backup and restoringthe patients dataThe information is organized in database with the following tables:• Patients - contains patients data such as Identification number, Regional Health Insurance fundnumber, Region number, Code of the country, Patient name, Date of birth, Patient address, genderetc.• Medical doctors - contains information about the medical staff such as Unique identificationnumber, Registration number, Medical specialty code, Doctor’s name, Contact information• Medical institutions - contains information about hospitals and medical healthcare institutionsavailable• Regional Health Insurance funds - contains all available Regional Health Insurance funds• Medical specialties - codes and types of every medical specialties• Referrals - information about referrals for patients consultations and other medical specialists,medical diagnostic centers and patients hospitalizations• Clinical treatments - contains codes and types of available clinical treatments• Ambulatory examinations - contains information about performed examinations from medicalspecialists such as Time and date of examination, Identification number of the patient, Personalidentification number of the medical specialist, Patient condition, Patient immunizations, Performedmedical procedures etc.3 Medical software - AMedicalIn this section we present some of the menus of the software for medical specialists. The software hasworking name - AMedical and is realized using Microsoft Visual Studio 2013 and ODBC (Open DataBase Connector) technology. Figure 1 shows the Home screen of AMedical software. All the modules areavailable by the menu of the Home-screen.Figure 2 shows the dialog window for inserting a new patient. Every time the medical specialist extendtheir practice, they need to create new files for the new patients. The software provides notifications ifmandatory information is now inserted.Similar dialog windows are being use for the rest of the modules allowing the medical specialists toeasily manage their patients’ information.Figure 3 shows the dialog window for creating new ambulatory list for a patient. There are variouselements easing the process for medical specialists minimizing the possible errors. Some of the elements arerealized with drop-down menus making available only one option (like Primary or Secondary examinationof the patient). Other option groups can be marked several at a time such as Reason for doctor visitation(Consultation, Medical check, Hospitalization, etc.) Immunizations are fixed and can be selected from alist one by one.All the modules described in the previous section are realized with similar dialog windows, but theyare too many to be presented in a single paper.35Figure 1: Home screen of AMedical softwareFigure 2: AMedical - insert new patient window36Figure 3: Ambulatory examinations4 Future workConcerning the global problems with information security the proposed system can be updated withcryptographic data transfer [3, 4, 7] of the sensitive information and steganographic data transfer [8] ofsystem information.5 ConclusionThe healthcare is one of the fastest growing and important sectors of public life and the lack of enoughsoftware products is noticeable. More software products are needed to meet the requirements of medicalspecialists, improving and easing their work.37In this paper we presented such software, containing the mandatory modules for medical specialists’practices. AMedical is realized with suitable interface and simple navigation to facilitate the work andto minimize the errors.AcknowledgementThis work is partially supported by the Scientific research fund of Konstantin Preslavski University ofShumen under the grant No. RD-08-71/29.01.2019.References[1] Becchetti, C., Neri, A. (2013). Medical instrument design and development: from requirements tomarket placements. John Wiley & Sons.[2] Hota, C., Srimani, P. K. (Eds.). (2013). Distributed Computing and Internet Technology: 9th In-ternational Conference, ICDCIT 2013, Bhubaneswar, India, February 5-8, 2013, Proceedings (Vol.7753). Springer.[3] Kordov, K. M. (2014). Modified Chebyshev map based pseudo-random bit generator. 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Comptes rendus de l’Academie bulgare des Sciences,69(7), 845-850.[9] URL: https://www.bgbit.com/ - BetaGP medical software official page (visited 01.09.2019)[10] URL: http://nisetbg.com/ - Niset-SIMP medical software official page (visited 01.09.2019)[11] URL: http://hippocrates.kontrax.bg/hippocrates-gp - Hipokrat GP medical software officialpage (visited 01.09.2019)[12] URL: https://www.globalmedics.com/ - Global Medics medical software official page (visited01.09.2019)Copyright c© 2019 Mihaela Todorova, Aleksandar Kutsarov, Krasimir Kordov. This is an open access article distributedunder the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in anymedium, provided the original work is properly cited.38

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