Introduction:

The Neurophysiology specialty deals with the nervous system (central and peripheral) study and assessment and its functional modification and the sense and muscular organs, both in normal and pathological conditions. Information standardization on this specialty is complex because each Cuban hospital institution has its own management sources. This situation makes it difficult to homogenize the data, gather statistical information and include it in the Cuban patient unique digital medical record.

Objective:

Describe a software component that computerizes neurophysiological studies requests for Cuban health institutions that use the XAVIA HIS Hospital Information System.

Method:

Specialists from the Cuban Neuroscience Center CNEURO were interviewed to define the neurophysiological studies requests management process. The semi-structured interview was applied, which allowed the adaptation to the interviewees in order to clarify terms, identify ambiguities and reduce formalisms. Free software tools were used for development (JBoss Developer Studio as an integrated development environment, Java as an object-oriented programming language, JBoss as an application server and PostgreSQL v9.4 as a database management system) that guarantee the Cuban software development and technological sovereignty policies.

Results:

Neurophysiological studies requests in the XAVIA HIS system were computerized using a software component, based on the HL7-CDA standard for clinical documents.

Conclusions:

Neurophysiology specialists have functionalities for the specialty information standardization, storage, and management, which leads to the XAVIA HIS system digital medical record enrichment.

        · abstract in Spanish     · text in Spanish     · Spanish ( pdf )