Computerized Patient Records System

There is a large effort in both the military and civilian medical communities to change from paper medical records to Electronic Medical Records (EMR). Currently, only about 3% of civilian physicians are using an EMR system. The DoD's medical facilitiesmust operate over a much larger spectrum of scenarios than those of its civilian counterparts. These encompass all the civilian cases, such as primary care medicine in a clinic environment, through the various medical specialties like surgery, pediatrics,and so forth, to the demanding environment of battlefield medicine.This program will deliver to the OSD a computerized medical records system with an advanced user interface between the CHCS II medical system and wireless handheld MDAs.Key features of this system include handheld, anytime, anywhere, wireless access; a next-generation user-interface to improve data input, retrieval, and comprehension; and platform independence. Key technologies involved include 802.11x and Bluetoothwireless protocols, browser technology with strong encryption, ODBC to interface to any major medical database back-end, XML data output, and HL7 compliance. Features leverage other emerging technologies, such as handwriting recognition, voice command, PICreaders, and all manners of portable computers for which browsers are written.