2001 Volume 21 Issue 3 Pages 211-222
The order entry system was the first application of the full-scale of the hospital information system in Japan, which has been accepted favorably these day. The Ministry of Health and Welfare allowed recording medical records on computer systems in 1999. From that new development has been expected. In Osaka University Hospital, the electronic patient record database was set up, in which records of doctors and nurses, order and processing data, laboratory test results, examination reports, and header information of images are stored. The client system has a function to collect the patient data and show them on the flow sheet. We have a plan to develop a data warehouse to analyze the stored data which are structured by the dynamic template. The hospital which implemented the basic order entry system successfully should aim to broaden the covered area of the order entry system and stored the order and processing data on the electronic patient record database, which also should deal with the laboratory test results and the examination reports, and finally the records of doctors and nurses. This advanced hospital information system can contribute to the manpower saving, clinical supporting, and evaluation of the hospital activities.
