Abstract
Recently, the increasing digitalization of medical information in healthcare facilities has enriched medical safety checks and information-sharing functions for staff members; however, this has not completely prevented the occurrence of incidents. By organizing system roles from the perspective of “positively conveying information,” we demonstrate the need to add mechanisms tasked with information transmission to existing hospital information systems, and propose integrated design and implementation that treats the entire infrastructure of system as a “medical information transmission platform.”
During the renewal of the Integrated Medical Information System (IMIS) at Kochi Medical School Hospital in January 2013, we attempted to realize such a platform by constructing an Integrated Medical Information Infrastructure (IMII). The implementation of such a system required that we choose a mobile device for individual use and develop an application to be run on the device as well as construct a wireless LAN environment capable of stable connections. The overall design and construction of infrastructure of hospital information systems based on the idea of “medical information transmission platforms” is crucial for medical safety, and this concept can be applied to and implemented in a variety of healthcare facilities.
