2017, Number 6
Legal Medicine and Informatics: an application for information management
Serrano HA, Serrano GA, Serrano GA
Language: Spanish
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Page: 820-827
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ABSTRACT
Introduction: it is a purpose to find sustainable ways to provide the economic/social entities with the technical capacities which allow overcoming the challenges imposed by the society, the use of computer implementations moves towards the inclusion of computerization, its procedures and techniques in the area of public health.Objective: to manage the information in the Department of Legal Medicine at Dr. León Cuervo Rubio Clinical Surgical Teaching Hospital of Pinar del Río province through a computer application.
Method: a review of the documentation about the processes carried out in the Department of Legal Medicine was used, as well as surveys, interviews and the bibliographic review used into the processes of capture of requirements, analysis, design and implementation in software development.
Results: a computer application that facilitates the legal medicine practitioners to work with data entry and outputs by designing a friendly and esthetically pleasing interface by providing a product developed with free software tools, fulfilling the strategy of the country in search of the necessary technological independence to the country.
Conclusions: the research developed was aimed at computerizing the Department of Legal Medicine for the management of information in the health system. As a result it is managing the information generated in the actions of each procedure established by the Ministry of Public Health, Ministry of Justice and Ministry of the Interior for each case study.