Design of a cost-effective customized Electronic Health Record system to handle patient management during Covid-19 pandemic

Abstract

Healthcare is one of the basic needs for
human beings. Unfortunately, a densely populated
country like Bangladesh has always struggled to provide
adequate healthcare to all of its people, especially to the
rural population. To handle with huge amount of data
and coordination between the doctors and patients,
electronic health record system (EHR) has become a
necessity. During this Covid-19 pandemic, face to face
consultation between frontline workers like doctors, and
nurse and patients has become difficult. As a result,
many patients are having difficulty in getting treatment
from doctors. In Bangladesh’s perspective at this
moment, a cost effective, energy efficient and portable
device system is needed to build up a customized
Electronic health record system. The proposed system
can reduce medical errors about patient identification
and treatment, increase effectiveness and timeliness of
doctors and overall improve the health care of people of
the rural area Therefore, an easy to use, affordable,
user-friendly and customized EHR system design is
proposed in this paper by utilizing recent wireless
communication techniques that can give the rural people
better health service during lockdown / isolated
condition as imposed due to pandemic scenario.