What is Intelligent Prescription System (IPS) ?
Typically, a doctor spends most of his time in diagnosis of ailments of his/her
patients. Among the ailments that a doctor diagnoses, some can be expected to
be more common than the others, and occur with a higher frequency (such as
fever, cold etc.). Moreover, the occurrence of a particular ailment may be
seasonal and a large number of cases of the same ailment may be reported during
a particular period. Quality time of the doctor is expended in repeated
analysis of the same ailment for a large number of patients, leading to
redundancy in operation.
Intelligent Prescription System (IPS) enables the doctors
in quick diagnosis of patients, by leveraging existing medical databases of
symptoms and medicines prescribed for common ailments (like fever, malaria,
typhoid etc). Not only does this result in increased individual productivity,
but also makes the diagnosis process more efficient. In addition, the doctor
would also gain quick access to the patient case history details and related
information from a common interface.
Example: To diagnose a case of malaria, the patient would probably
specify symptoms like "shivering", "fever" etc. If we maintain a database with
common Symptoms and Ailments, the above process could be automated and the
doctor would be able to do faster diagnosis. Prescription of medicines and
warnings about the Mode of Spread of the ailment/disease would also be of use
to the patient.
IPS System Design
IPS is built using Microsoft Office XP based Smart Tags. It
consists of four assistants that empower the doctor with patient
information at the click of a mouse.
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Ailment Assistant:
If the doctor types out a common ailment in a Microsoft Word document, a Smart
Tag type is associated with it by the IPS. The Smart Tag provides
actions associated with the ailment which do a database lookup on a Microsoft
SQL DataBase and provide the associated Symptoms, the prescribed Medicines and
the Mode of Spread of the ailment. A screen shot of a typical interaction with
this component is shown below:
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Medicine Assistant:
If the doctor types out a medicine in a Microsoft Word document, a Smart Tag
type is associated with it by the IPS. The Smart Tag provides actions
associated with the medicine, which do a database lookup on a Microsoft SQL
DataBase and provide the Target Ailment, Side Effects, Target Age Group of the
medicine. A screen shot of a typical interaction with this component is shown
below:
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Symptom Assistant:
If the doctor types out a common symptom in a Microsoft Word document, a Smart
Tag type is associated with it by the IPS. The Smart Tag provides
actions associated with the symptom, which do a database lookup on a Microsoft
SQL DataBase and provide the Possible Ailments that the symptom could be
indicative of. A screen shot of a typical interaction with this component is
shown below:
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Patient Assistant:
If the doctor types out a Patient ID (assigned by the hospital), in a Microsoft
Word document, a Smart Tag type is associated with it by the IPS. The
Smart Tag provides actions associated with the symptom, which do a database
lookup on a Microsoft SQL DataBase and provide the Patient Case History, the
Major Ailments he was/is suffering from and his Last Visit to the hospital. A
screen shot of a typical interaction with this component is shown below:
Summary
Thus IPS enables a dramatic reduction in the redundancy of routine
operations performed by a doctor. Hence the doctor would be spending
considerably less time in these activities and can use his/her time for more
value-added activities and time-critical cases.
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