Software for acquisition of exercise test database

Author

Kallio, J. ; Lehtinen, R. ; Turjanmaa, V. ; Viik, J. ; Malmivuo, J.

Author_Institution

Ragnar Granit Inst., Tampere Univ. of Technol., Finland

fYear

2001

fDate

2001

Firstpage

565

Lastpage

568

Abstract

The purpose of this project was to design and implement software that will provide the ability to collate all exercise ECG test patient information in a database. Software was meant to reduce the workload of nurses and doctors and decrease the number of errors in information, in addition to which it was meant to replace the manually written paper form with a printed version from the application. The automation and calculation components will speed up the work of nurses and doctors and also helps doctor when making diagnoses of patients. The development process was done in close collaboration with the personnel of Tampere University Hospital. This guaranteed easy implementation of the software in a hospital environment. The software has been in use since October 2000 and there have been approximately 1000 patients tested with the software

Keywords

electrocardiography; medical computing; medical diagnostic computing; medical information systems; patient diagnosis; Tampere University Hospital; automation; doctors; exercise ECG test database acquisition software; nurses; patient diagnosis; printed version; Application software; Automation; Collaborative work; Computer errors; Databases; Electrocardiography; Hospitals; Personnel; Software design; Software testing;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Computers in Cardiology 2001

Conference_Location

Rotterdam

ISSN

0276-6547

Print_ISBN

0-7803-7266-2

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/CIC.2001.977718

Filename

977718