Empowering patients using cloud based personal health record system

One of the main goals of the electronic health record (EHR) system is to empower patients to access to their own medical decisions. However, medical data is largely coming from clinical institutions so there is no way for them to control or maintain their own medical record. Patients or guardians may need to keep track of their medical data such as observed symptoms or measurements that may not be available in the EHR. Additionally, clinical decision without patient medical history can be error-prone and even be detrimental. Personal medical condition history is considered as the one of the weakest links in the current healthcare systems. For those reasons, it is necessary to have an effective and efficient personal health record system (PHRS) that allows patients or guardians to constantly monitor and control the personal health record. We propose a cloud based personal health record system that allows constant monitoring capability by supporting dynamic creation of clinical document architecture (CDA) document from a mobile device. The generated CDA document may be used to assess current health against major diseases through a clinical decision support system. We provide constant monitoring capability by using easy uploading module and decision support system. Our proposed system uses medical coding standards such as ICD-9-CM, SNOMED CT, etc. to achieve interoperability between different electronic health record systems.