Development of E-Fibroid Patient Tracking System Using Smartcard Technology

This paper presents an e-Fibroid Patient Tracking System to allow information on fibroid patients’ to be generated, updated, archived, routed and used for decision-making and strategic information analysis. The combined benefits of smart card to support mobility in a pocket coupled with the ubiquitous access expected to presents a new paradigm for medical information access system. Smart card with the local processing capabilities facilitates the development of active programs that are designed to effectively and accurately manage complex fibroid patient’s medical record. Essentially, the patient’s information is augmented with active programs residing within the smart card to provide rich services such as record management facilities, security and authentication, and clinical alert system. The development will follow four process; planning, analysis, design and implementation. The intended users are the administrative, doctors, specialists, hospital, clinics and fibroid patients’. The development focuses on the solutions of providing mobility of medical data or records and preventing the increasing cost, redundancy of treatment and the most importantly obtaining necessary medication for fibroid patients. The system was design to provide better security against the misuse of patient data by implementing security mechanisms. Performance and robustness, together with ease of use, which provides available, accessible and manageable information on fibroid, are likely essential elements in the system.