Title: Clinical Information System for Palliative Care

Abstract
Through this presentation we present a Palliative Care Information System
Team Portal that will monitor and manage patient information for those who
are receiving healthcare, at home or outside the hospital, by care teams
possibly from various organizations. The main goals of this team portal
system are to centralize the information so as to be accessible from
patient’s home, hospitals, and even smart phones; to facilitate the
consultation process by providing web-based forms, thereby eliminate the
errors caused by miscommunication such as bad handwriting and
misunderstood phone calls; and to provide a reporting system to enable
performance management so as to assess and improve the quality of care
provided in the region. Not only will the system be used for Pain and
Symptom management of Palliative Care patients, but will be configurable
for other health care applications and EHRs, such as chronic disease
management and heart monitoring systems.