Electronic Medical Record System (EMR) has some weakness in their
usability. The weakness is due to adopting “Waterfall” method to every part of the
system. To get rid of those problems, our hospital uses FileMaker Pro to input/output
Electronic Medical Record. In our system, all clinical data of a patient will be spread
out on FileMaker when one would like to open a record. Then, added information when
saving the record will be transferred to basic system. The input-output layouts can be
modified easily as user need, and several functions can be introduced very easily. Our
system is so flexible that we can easily customize all the layouts as requested by any
department of a large-scale general hospital and those of clinical supporting system. In
addition to the flexibility of the interface layer, another benefit of our system is that
FileMaker layer can be used as the viewer of multi-vender system.
Keywords: Electronic medical record, FileMaker Pro, Usability, Flexibility,
Interface, Agile, End user computing, Reference system, User-made, Clinical
supporting system, J-SUMMITS.
