Adaptation of an Electronic Medical Record System for Remote Monitoring Applications

The Electronic Medical Records system (EMR) is a method of storing information kept in a traditional medical record in an electronic database for distributed access to medical professionals. This paper focuses on how an EMR system can be designed to allow for the integration of an assisted living at home system and which together can allow for the automated data entry into the EMR from home medical sensors. This paper looks at the system architecture and implementation details of such an integrated system. An electronic medical record has numerous advantages over the traditional medical record, such as integrating dynamic environmental data into the system, and a customizable interface on both the client and doctors end, outlined in this paper. The system is designed on a existing set of components from the open source project OpenEMed [4] and is implemented as a distributed system written in Java. This paper presents the motivation for the project and it concludes with a discussion of the impact of such a project and future directions.