Flexible electronic patient record: first results from a Dutch hospital.

This paper covers a pilot project that has been done at a dutch general hospital. They searched for the feasibility of a flexible patient record based on intranet technology and a system integrator (CAI). Based on an extended analysis of the organisation (i.c. hospital and pilot specialism), information and communication, the specifications for the interfaces are defined. Furthermore the structure and number of data to be stored in the Patient Data & Result Server are defined. Finally, a prototype of the flexible patient record has been developed. This prototype is not yet in routine use. However, experiences of the clinicians have learned that the web technology in combination with a system integrator could be a major step in the "wide" acceptation of the electronic patient record.