Abstract:
In the current healthcare system, it's a common
practice to refer patients from one medical practitioner to
another to complete his/her treatment procedure. This process
is known as a referral. Currently in Sri Lanka due to a lack of a
well-organized referral system has led to many shortcomings in
the health sector. These include misplacement of referral forms
causing repetitions of the same treatment procedures, long
queues, and congestion in hospital premises. It has even led to
misdiagnosis and incorrect treatment procedures which in some
cases has led to the loss of a patient's life. As a result patient's
faith in the entire health care system has begun to deteriorate.
The primary scope of this research is to promote an electronic
health record system(ESR) to provide solutions to the challenges
which are met by the current system. In this study, the IBM
Hyperledger Fabric framework is used to create a prototype.
Then the prototype is tested against common use cases found in
the health sector.
