A diagnostic component for the EPD-Car project

Author

Dijk, WA ; van der Velde, W. ; Dassen, WRM ; van der Putten, N. ; Spruijt, HJ ; Baljon, MH

Author_Institution

Thorax Center, Universiteit Hosp., Groningen, Netherlands

fYear

2001

fDate

2001

Firstpage

561

Lastpage

564

Abstract

This paper describes a diagnostic module which is a part of the EPD-CAR (Electronic Patient Dossier for Cardiology) project of the Interuniversity Cardiology Institute of the Netherlands. It consists of 13 coding trees, each containing between 3 and 20 subitems. The scheme evolved from daily practice where standard coding schemes proved insufficient. It consists of one main diagnosis and up to 10 optional subdiagnoses. Back-end integration is achieved through conversion tables to ICD-9 and ICD-10. The current system is in use now,for over 1.5 years and contains diagnoses of over 11000 patients. The system is written in Visual Foxpro 6.0 and is an ActiveX-component

Keywords

cardiology; distributed object management; medical diagnostic computing; patient diagnosis; ActiveX component; EPD-CAR project; Electronic Patient Dossier for Cardiology project; Interuniversity Cardiology Institute of the Netherlands; Visual Foxpro 6 0; back-end integration; coding trees; conversion tables; diagnostic module; Art; Biomedical imaging; Cardiology; Communication standards; Communications technology; Data communication; Hospitals; Medical diagnostic imaging; Standardization; Thorax;

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.2001.977717

Filename

977717