Universal Patient Record Forum

Abstract – Many health care organizations are automating their patient medical records. In order to share patient medical records across health care organizations for purposes of patient care, standards are now being developed, principally by people in the medical field. Such a sharing of patient medical records requires distributed systems. In order to properly design these distributed systems and connecting networks, this design must be developed in coordination with computer scientists, and also business analysts. This paper explores some of the many difficult computer science-oriented issues involved in such a design. As an example approach for such distributed systems, it presents my ideas for a Universa