A HANDHELD ELECTRONIC PATIENT RECORD USING A NEW UML COMPONENT-BASED ARCHITECTURE

With the emergence of the electronic patient record, the scene of stacks of patient records, common in hospitals and clinics, will become eradicated. Computerized patient records can facilitate patients' queries and requests for diagnosis. Personal patient records entailing prior hospital or clinic visits can be readily retrieved through contemporary storage devices (such as integrated circuit card, radio-frequency identification, etc.) thereby enabling physicians to efficiently determine a patient's past medical history in order to accurately assess his/her medical condition. The gradual development of the electronic patient record with direct connection to the hospital will enable physicians to use a handheld electronic patient record platform for queries and study as well as to diagnose a patient's condition, even while making out-of-town visits. This not only can serve patients located at remote areas, but also lessen the difficulties experienced in out-of-town diagnosis and treatment. While focusing on the methods for designing a handheld electronic patient record, this thesis applies unified modeling language (UML) to describe the acquired functions of such a platform; in essence, it applies the characteristics of UML to provide the designer with clarified understanding for the architecture as well as the operational movements. Through this approach, a highly reliable product could be designed in the shortest period of time.