Mobile Access to Patient Clinical Records and Related Medical Documentation

On-line access to patient clinical records from pocket and hand-held or tablet computers, will be an useful tool for health care professionals and a valuable complement to other medical applications if information delivery and access information systems are designed with handheld computers in mind. In this paper we present and discuss some partial results of two different research projects: SINAMED1 and ISIS2, both of them has as main goals the design of new text categorization and summarization algorithms applied to patient clinical records and associated medical information, and advanced, efficient user interfaces to mobile and on-line access to this results. Continued and new research is expected to improve additional handheld-based user interface design principles as well as guidelines for results organization and system performance and acceptation in a concrete public health institution.