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EEMI - An Electronic Health Record for Pediatricians: Adoption Barriers, Services and Use in Mexico

EEMI - An Electronic Health Record for Pediatricians: Adoption Barriers, Services and Use in Mexico
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Author(s): Juan C. Lavariega (Escuela de Ingenieria y Tecnologias de Informacion, Mexico), Roberto Garza (Escuela de Ingenieria y Tecnologias de Informacion, Mexico), Lorena G. Gómez (Escuela de Ingenieria y Tecnologias de Informacion, Mexico), Victor J. Lara-Diaz (Escuela de Ingenieria y Tecnologias de Informacion, Mexico)and Manuel J. Silva-Cavazos (Escuela de Ingenieria y Tecnologias de Informacion, Mexico)
Copyright: 2020
Pages: 15
Source title: Data Analytics in Medicine: Concepts, Methodologies, Tools, and Applications
Source Author(s)/Editor(s): Information Resources Management Association (USA)
DOI: 10.4018/978-1-7998-1204-3.ch034

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Abstract

The use of paper health records and handwritten prescriptions are prone to preset errors of misunderstanding instructions or interpretations that derive in affecting patients' health. Electronic Health Records (EHR) systems are useful tools that among other functions can assists physicians' tasks such as finding recommended medicines, their contraindications, and dosage for a given diagnosis, filling prescriptions and support data sharing with other systems. This paper presents EEMI, a Children EHR focused on assisting pediatricians in their daily office practice. EEMI functionality keeps the relationships among diagnosis, treatment, and medications. EEMI also calculates dosages and automatically creates prescriptions which can be personalized by the physician. The system also validates patient allergies. This paper also presents the current use of EHRs in Mexico, the Mexican Norm (NOM-024-SSA3-2010), standards for the development of electronic medical records and its relationships with other standards for data exchange and data representation in the health area.

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