Eye Republic Information System (EyeRIS)

Abstract

The Eye Republic Group of Eye Clinics which is one of the fastest growing ophthalmology practices in the area with a growing team of doctors and a number of convenient locations. Its focus is to provide their patients the highest quality medical and surgical eye care possible, to preserve, enhance, and restore vision. The Eye Republic implements a semi-paper based system in processing and keeping records. Presently, two of their clinics are using an automated system, the Clinic GENIE — a proprietary system working on a local environment — which offers some features for other specialties like OBGyne, Pediatric, etc., that the clinic will never use. Since their current system works on a local environment only, there is no way for the clinical systems of the two clinics to communicate and share data, thus with this kind of system the clinic encounters problems such as duplication of records and difficulty in retrieving of data from one clinic to another. Also, since only a few of their clinics managed to implement the usage of the Clinic GENIE, other clinics encounter the problems of missing records, difficulty in retrieving records, and difficulty in reproducing records on top of what the other clinics that already use Clinic GENIE encounters. The drawbacks in the current system they are using affect the quality of service and the daily operations of the clinics. Thus, to address the needs of the group of clinics, the Eye Republic Information System (EyeRIS) was created. The system basically provides the clinical system functionalities customarily designed for the Eye Republic such as for patient consultation and eye assessment. Since the system is web-based, storage and retrieval of data become easier since it provides access of the system records from any place where the web is accessible. With the system, the need to replicate patient information when visiting from one clinic to another are prevented. Furthermore, information is also secured because only the authorized users can access specific functionalities of the system.