Publications
MEDRIS : The Problem Oriented Electronic Medical Record in Medical Education
11/04/1990
Sami F. Rifat, MD1, Shanthi Robert, MS3, David Trace, MD1, Sanjeev Prakash, MD1, Frank Naeymi-Rad, PhD1,
David Barnett, MD1, Gregory Pannicia, MD1, David Hammergren1, Lowell Carmony, PhD2, and Martha Evens, PhD3
1University of Health Sciences/The Chicago Medical School, North Chicago, IL 60064
2Lake Forest College, Department of Mathematics and Computer Science, Lake Forest, IL 60045
3Illinois Institute of Technology, Department of Computer Science, Chicago, IL 60616
Abstract
MEDRIS (The Medical Record Interface System) is an object oriented HyperCard interface designed to help physicians enter patient information as comfortably and naturally as possible. It can function as a stand alone system producing its own reports or serve as an interface to a medical expert system (e.g., MEDAS). MEDRIS plays an important role in the clinical education of medical students at the Chicago Medical School. Medical students developed accurate representations of the history and physical exam using Apple Macintosh computers and HyperCard software. MEDRIS portrays an intuitive, graphically oriented system that will provide a learning environment for the problem oriented medical record (POMR) that forms the basis of the structure of the history and physical exam. The enthusiasm shown by the medical students for this project has garnered support for including MEDRIS in the curriculum of the Introduction to Clinical Medicine course in the near future. We suggest that the use of computerized medical records using HyperCard technology can assist in not only teaching POMR and physical diagnosis, but also computer literacy. The MEDRIS graphical user interface simplifies the man-machine interaction and also expresses the graphical nature of the physical exam.
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