During the first days of the coronavirus outbreak in the country, Isfahan University of Technology proposed the design and creation of a system called “Corona Data Management” dashboard to the President of Isfahan University of Medical Sciences and after the announcement of his approval and support, the design process began.
Dr. Ghadiri, Associate Professor at Isfahan University of Technology, pointed out that the emergence of coronavirus and its rapid spread along with the special importance of identification of suspected cases among those refer to medical centers across the country persuaded the Ministry of Health, Treatment and Medical Education to use the various systems available to record information and monitor suspicious cases in order to provide the targeted management of resources. He also added that the lack of data integration in the result of use of multiple software systems to record corona data, as well as the existence of differences and multiplicity in definitions, processes, and also users registering information on any of the systems created a challenge to achieve single and reliable statistics in order to analyze the current situation and make appropriate decisions.
Electronic Health Record System (SARS), Medical Care Data Monitoring System, Electronic System of Syndromic Care System of Infectious Diseases Management Center, System of Registration and Classification of Causes of Death and Hospital Information Management System (HIS) are the software systems related to coronavirus outbreak in the National Health Care System; none of these systems independently provide complete information about the coronavirus outbreak, but by combining them in the form of “Coronet Management Dashboard”, a more comprehensive picture of the outbreak will be obtained at the level of medical centers under the auspices of Isfahan University of Medical Sciences. The most important data indicators in this dashboard include the admission process for suspected COVID-19 patients based on the reasons for patient referrals, the discharge process for suspected or confirmed COVID-19 patients based on the final diagnosis, the fatality rate for COVID-19 based on the final diagnosis and the PCR test results (performed for hospitalized patients who were fetched daily from the Health Deputy System), the process of readmission and tracking of the suspected patients in all covered medical centers based on the patients’ demographic information, the hospitalization rates in the covered medical centers sorted by the ward and the occupancy bed rates in the province in order to manage intensive care beds.
In this system, in addition to the online aggregation of the information of all the covered medical centers, the indicators are provided in the form of tables and charts that can be separated based on each hospital and time interval; and the possibility of monitoring the current status of referral hospitals providing services to patients is created and if necessary, distribution of workload to other hospitals will be provided.
