scholarly journals The Use of NFC Technology to Record Medical Information in Order to Improve the Quality of Medical and Treatment Services

2016 ◽  
Vol 10 (6) ◽  
pp. 136
Author(s):  
Nasreen Nabi Khah Razmi ◽  
Amin Babazadeh Sangar
Keyword(s):  
Mobile Devices ◽  
Mobile Health ◽  
Medical Information ◽  
Electronic Version ◽  
Electronic Systems ◽  
Treatment Services ◽  
Quality Of Patient Care ◽  
Secure Environment ◽  
Common Architecture

Although doctors are increasingly interested in electronic systems of registering medical record, but in practice such systems are used less. Mobile devices provide a new way for accessing users to data of health cares and services in a secure environment and user-selection. Mobile health cares' systems (M-health) are considered as a solution to reduce health care costs without reducing the quality of patient care. In this paper we are going to develop a common architecture for mobile health cares' services using NFC in order to facilitate providing health cares to people anywhere and anytime using the mobile devices that are connected to wireless communication technology, to be able to provide required services by a secure and available structure for patient' information in hospitals and health centers and treatment, especially intensive care units, emergency or patients needed home care. Also it can be avoided from forgery and misuse of physicians' stamp in current versions with this system by preparing electronic version using NFC technology.

Patient Access to Medical Information

1988 ◽  
Vol 18 (1) ◽  
pp. 11-14 ◽  
Author(s):  
Johanna I. Westbrook
Keyword(s):  
Medical Information ◽  
Patient Access ◽  
Medical Practitioners ◽  
Record Keeping ◽  
Positive Effects ◽  
Quality Of Patient Care ◽  
Health Practitioners ◽  
Research Findings ◽  
Harmful Effects

This paper is the first of a 2-part article. In it, the author discusses issues relevant to patient access to medical records. Research findings suggest that the fear of many health practitioners regarding the harmful effects of such access are unjustified. Access to medical information improves patient-doctor relations, increases patient knowledge and compliance, has positive effects on patients' health, and improves the quality of record keeping. Other suggested advantages are increases in the quality of patient care and health practitioners' work satisfaction, and a decrease in malpractice suits. The hypotheses to be tested in a survey of medical practitioners' attitudes to these issues are discussed.

scholarly journals Evaluation of the Decision-Making Mode during Digestive Oncology Multidisciplinary Meetings: a Prospective Study in a Moroccan Center

2020 ◽  
pp. 764-769
Author(s):  
Chaimae Charoui ◽  
Amine Souadka ◽  
Saber Saber ◽  
Rachida Latib ◽  
Laila Rifai ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Decision Making ◽  
Medical Information ◽  
Point Of View ◽  
Digestive Cancer ◽  
Multidisciplinary Meetings ◽  
Quality Of Patient Care ◽  
Improvement Measures ◽  
A Prospective Study ◽  
Digestive Oncology

Introduction: The multidisciplinary team oncology meeting (MDT) has become a standard in oncology. The objective of this study was to evaluate the value of a validated tool, the Metric for the Observation of Decision-Making, in the evaluation of the decision-making mode during the digestive cancer MDT in order to reach recommendations for improvement. Results: Eight consecutive MDTs were observed (N = 228 patients). On average, 32 patients were discussed by MDT with an average of 2 min 55 s (interval: 30 s-10 min 16 s) per patient. A decision was reached in 84.6% of the cases. Although the medical information was judged to be of good quality, the psychosocial information (average 1.29) and the patients' point of view (average 1.03) were judged to be of low quality. For teamwork, the contribution of surgeons (average 4.56) and oncologists (average 3.99) was greater than radiologists (3.12), radiotherapists (1.74) and pathologists (1.02). Conclusions: The tool made it possible to identify a disparity in the quality of the different aspects of the information and in the participation of specialists, making it possible to identify specific improvement measures. Its regular use would improve the quality of patient care. Keywords: Decision making, Quality improvement, Multidisciplinary Concertation meeting, MDT-MODe, Morocco

scholarly journals Evaluation of the Decision-Making Mode during Digestive Oncology Multidisciplinary Meetings: a Prospective Study in a Moroccan Center

2020 ◽  
pp. 764-769
Author(s):  
Chaimae Charoui ◽  
Amine Souadka ◽  
Saber Saber ◽  
Rachida Latib ◽  
Laila Rifai ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Decision Making ◽  
Medical Information ◽  
Point Of View ◽  
Digestive Cancer ◽  
Multidisciplinary Meetings ◽  
Quality Of Patient Care ◽  
Improvement Measures ◽  
A Prospective Study ◽  
Digestive Oncology

Introduction: The multidisciplinary team oncology meeting (MDT) has become a standard in oncology. The objective of this study was to evaluate the value of a validated tool, the Metric for the Observation of Decision-Making, in the evaluation of the decision-making mode during the digestive cancer MDT in order to reach recommendations for improvement. Results: Eight consecutive MDTs were observed (N = 228 patients). On average, 32 patients were discussed by MDT with an average of 2 min 55 s (interval: 30 s-10 min 16 s) per patient. A decision was reached in 84.6% of the cases. Although the medical information was judged to be of good quality, the psychosocial information (average 1.29) and the patients' point of view (average 1.03) were judged to be of low quality. For teamwork, the contribution of surgeons (average 4.56) and oncologists (average 3.99) was greater than radiologists (3.12), radiotherapists (1.74) and pathologists (1.02). Conclusions: The tool made it possible to identify a disparity in the quality of the different aspects of the information and in the participation of specialists, making it possible to identify specific improvement measures. Its regular use would improve the quality of patient care. Keywords: Decision making, Quality improvement, Multidisciplinary Concertation meeting, MDT-MODe, Morocco

Quality Assessment of Health Information about Scaphoid Fracture in Chinese Websites (Preprint)

2019 ◽  
Author(s):  
Yaobin Yin ◽  
Jianguang Ji ◽  
Peng Lu ◽  
Wenyao Zhong ◽  
Liying Sun ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Social Networks ◽  
Health Information ◽  
Search Engines ◽  
Medical Information ◽  
Scaphoid Fracture ◽  
Family Members ◽  
Online Information ◽  
Specific Content ◽  
The Mean

BACKGROUND With online health information becoming increasingly popular among patients and their family members, concerns have been raised about the accuracy from the websites. OBJECTIVE We aimed to evaluate the overall quality of the online information about scaphoid fracture obtained from Chinese websites using the local search engines. METHODS We conducted an online search using the keyword “scaphoid fracture” from the top 5 search engines in China, i.e. Baidu, Shenma, Haosou, Sougou and Bing, and gathered the top ranked websites, which included a total of 120 websites. Among them, 81 websites were kept for further analyses by removing duplicated and unrelated one as well as websites requiring payment. These websites were classified into four categories, including forum/social networks, commercials, academics and physician’s personals. Health information evaluation tool DISCERN and Scaphoid Fracture Specific Content Score (SFSCS) were used to assess the quality of the websites. RESULTS Among the 81 Chinese websites that we studied, commercial websites were the most common one accounting more than half of all websites. The mean DISCERN score of the 81 websites was 25.56 and no website had a score A (ranging from 64 to 80).The mean SFSCS score was 10.04 and no website had a score A (range between 24 and 30). In addition, DISCERN and SFSCS scores from academic and physician’s websites were significantly higher than those from the forum/social networks and commercials. CONCLUSIONS The overall quality of health information obtained from Chinese websites about scaphoid fracture was very low, suggesting that patients and their family members should be aware such deficiency and pay special attentions for the medical information obtained by using the current search engines in China.

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