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3. Trade name. 4. Strength: each 5 ml contains mg or each tablet contains mg. 5. Dose.
6. Frequency: How many times in a day or once in hours in a day. 7. Duration: How long
the physician has to be taken. 8. Relationship to food: before or after food. This process is
to be repeated for every drug and if a patient receives 4 drugs means then there will be
32 data entries. Suppose a physician sees 50 patients in a day means then 1600 data entries
for pharmacy alone. Needless to say errors do occur, and this can be solved only through
electronic records and by paramedical workers.
12.3.4 Laboratory
This includes blood tests like blood counts, malaria, typhoid detection, and biochemical tests.
Imaging services: like X-rays and scans. If sound clinical principles are applied, they
may not be required. EHR can display these results in a meaningful way.
Non-physician therapy, which includes other treatment modalities including counseling.
Follow-up: The entire process has to be repeated for the second visit.
Because the healthcare visits involve so many components, the cost of health care is high.
We need a good electronic record to capture the same.
The EHR was designed and developed jointly by AA Child Care Center in Vellore and HELYXON ®
Health Solutions of IIT-M Research Park, Chennai.
12.4 Problems with Traditional EHR Software
HELYXON ® software has been designed so that the paramedics can enter most of the data.
Physician’s typing is less. This can be done before the patient is seen by the physician.
As Figure 12.10 shows the waiting period is meaningfully utilized, using the software
(Box 12.3).
FIGURE 12.10
Use of HELYXON ® software by paramedical workers for data acquisition.
Non-Physician Primary Healthcare Workers
3. Trade name. 4. Strength: each 5 ml contains mg or each tablet contains mg. 5. Dose.
6. Frequency: How many times in a day or once in hours in a day. 7. Duration: How long
the physician has to be taken. 8. Relationship to food: before or after food. This process is
to be repeated for every drug and if a patient receives 4 drugs means then there will be
32 data entries. Suppose a physician sees 50 patients in a day means then 1600 data entries
for pharmacy alone. Needless to say errors do occur, and this can be solved only through
electronic records and by paramedical workers.
12.3.4 Laboratory
This includes blood tests like blood counts, malaria, typhoid detection, and biochemical tests.
Imaging services: like X-rays and scans. If sound clinical principles are applied, they
may not be required. EHR can display these results in a meaningful way.
Non-physician therapy, which includes other treatment modalities including counseling.
Follow-up: The entire process has to be repeated for the second visit.
Because the healthcare visits involve so many components, the cost of health care is high.
We need a good electronic record to capture the same.
The EHR was designed and developed jointly by AA Child Care Center in Vellore and HELYXON ®
Health Solutions of IIT-M Research Park, Chennai.
12.4 Problems with Traditional EHR Software
HELYXON ® software has been designed so that the paramedics can enter most of the data.
Physician’s typing is less. This can be done before the patient is seen by the physician.
As Figure 12.10 shows the waiting period is meaningfully utilized, using the software
(Box 12.3).
FIGURE 12.10
Use of HELYXON ® software by paramedical workers for data acquisition.