The Electronic Health Record (EHR) System for DCCC will facilitate the staff of the DCCC to
have electronic health records of patients. The following will be the main functions of the EHR:
Create, update and view patient‟s electronic health records
Add medical documents, images and scanned copies to patients health record
Able to search for patient‟s from all the Drexel network of hospitals.
Provide referrals to Drexel Specialists
Generate e-prescriptions
The system to be developed will be hosted by Drexel College of Medicine. Terminals and
laptops at DCCC will be able to connect to it using a web service. The data entered and uploaded
will be saved on the data servers. This data will be accessible by all the hospitals in the Drexel
network. If a patient has visited a Drexel hospital earlier, his record will be updated with the
existing conditions and no new record will be created.
This system is a customized version of the AllScripts version which is currently being used by
most departments in the Drexel network of hospitals. This system will not include any billing
feature; it will only provide diagnosis code, which may be used for billing by other systems.