Applied Medical Informatics 2009;25(3-4):7-15.
From Passive to Active in the Design of External Radiotherapy Database at Oncology Institute "Prof. Dr. Ion Chiricuţă" from Cluj-Napoca
Nicolae TODOR1, Valentin Ioan CERNEA1,2, Aurel CHIŞ1
1 Oncology Institute “Prof. Dr. Ion Chiricuţă" Cluj-Napoca, Romania.
2 University of Medicine and Pharmacy "Iuliu Haţieganu” Cluj-Napoca, Romania.
E-mail: todor@iocn.ro
Abstract
Implementation during 1997 of a computer network at Oncology Institute “Prof. Dr. Ion Chiricuţă" from Cluj-Napoca (OICN) opens the era of patient electronic file where the presented database is included. The database developed before 2000, used till December 2006 in all reports of OICN has collected data from primary documents as radiotherapy files. Present level of the computer network permits to change the sense of data from computer to primary document. Now the primary document is built firstly electronically inside the computer, and secondly, after validation is printed as a known document. The paper discusses the issues concerning safety, functionality and access derived.
Keywords: Database Management Systems, Radiotherapy.