Web-based system for hospitals launched

"Our core is an integrated end-to-end solution and we have the ability to fit it to any hospital requirements since it is interoperable, scalable, flexible, Web-based, and highly secure," said Dr. Tommy Co, president of SolutionQuest Int'l Corp. which has teamed up with EMC Corp. and Trends Global to develop an electronic healthcare medical records system (eHMRS).

Available in modular form, the eHMRS consists of four configurable systems: EMR 360 View (an electronic medical records); FastTrack healthcare process (an electronic form templates and workflows for diagnostic procedures); healthcare scheduler (a resource schedule management for hospital departments and personnel); and healthcare RulesMachine (a regulation framework for hospital and government compliance).

The hospital information system maintains a secured database of patients and business information and can only be available using an eHRMS security pass. "We have created a rules engine and encryption feature inside the patient vault that states how long a data lives, who can see it, and how long one can one access it. It also features a disaster recovery system," noted Adam Waddell, director of EMC Solutions Asia

According to Waddell, eHRMS aims to shorten the treatment of a patient by providing better health care delivery, faster data access and retrieval, and easy-to-understand medical procedures and health conditions through digital imaging. On the hospital level, the solution seeks to improve the efficiency both on the cost and the clinical care by avoiding data duplications, delays, and missing records, including handling the requirements of the pharmacy.

Serving its back-end support is EMC's content management and archiving platform EMC Centera, an IP network storage system specifically designed to store and provide fast, easy access to fixed content. Expanding the system to eHRMS, patient and medical information is now easily shared across the Web and can be reproduced in real-time.