Question: Most medical practices use turn-key systems to handle billing data and basic electronic medical records. But a local physician wants a system to help him

  1. Most medical practices use turn-key systems to handle billing data and basic electronic medical records. But a local physician wants a system to help him perform deeper statistical analyses on basic patient data. Specifically, he wants to track basic test results for patients and wants to compare them by families. For example, he wants to see if families where parents have high blood pressure also affect the blood pressure of the children and at what age those values change. Initially, he just wants to track basic medical values including heart rate, pressure, and basic blood test. Notes: 

Patient Last name, First Name

Date of Birth

Gender

Race

Tobacco y/n

Alcohol y/n

Marital Status

Phone, e-mail

Address, City, State, ZIP

Father:

Mother:

Family history notes,

particularly if data is not

available.

Test date:

Last mealtime:

Test

Measure

Value

Low

High

Comments

Albumin

g/dL

3.9

5.0

Alkaline phosphatase

IU/L

44

147

ALT

IU/L

8

37

AST

IU/L

10

34

BUN

mg/dL

7

20

Calcium

mg/dL

8.5

10.9

Chloride

mmol/L

96

106

CO2

mmol/L

20

29

Creatine

mg/dL

0.8

1.4

Glucose

mg/dL

100

Potassium

mEq/L

3.7

5.2

Sodium

mEq/L

136

144

Total bilirubin

mg/dL

0.2

1.9

Total protein

g/dL

6.3

7.9

Blood pressure-systolic

mm Hg

90

140

Pressure-diastolic

mm Hg

60

90

Heart rate

bpm

50

90

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