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MEDWISE: An Innovative Public Health Information System Infrastructure

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In this paper, we present MedWise, a high level design of a medical information infrastructure, and its architecture. The proposed system offers a comprehensive, modular, robust and extensible infrastructure to be used in public health care systems. The system gathers reliable and evidence based health data, which it then classifies, interprets and stores into a particular database. It creates a healthcare ecosystem that aids the medical community by providing for less error prone diagnoses and treatment of diseases. This system will be standards-compliant; therefore it would be complementary to the existing healthcare and clinical information systems. The key objective of the proposed system is to provide as much medical historical and miscellaneous data as possible about the patients with minimal consultation, thus allowing physicians to easily access Patients’ Ancillary Data (PAD) such as hereditary, residential, travel, custom, meteorological, biographical and demographical data before the consultation. In addition, the system can help to diminish problems and misdiagnosis situations caused by language barriers-disorders and misinformation. MedWise can assist physicians to shorten time for diagnosis and consultations, therefore dramatically improving quality and quantity of the physical examinations of patients. Furthermore, since it intends to supply a significant amount of data, it may be used to improve skills of students in medical education.

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The authors would like to thank physicians and nurses of EGE and DOKUZ EYLUL Universities, especially Assoc. Prof. Dr. Fisun SENUZUN, Prof. Dr. Mehdi ZOGHI M.D., and Abide ÇAM for their generous helps.

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Sahin, Y.G., Celikkan, U. MEDWISE: An Innovative Public Health Information System Infrastructure. J Med Syst 36, 1719–1729 (2012). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10916-010-9632-7

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