FluxMED: An Adaptable and Extensible Electronic Health Record System

The amount of data generated by medical and laboratory services grows each day. The number of patients is increasing, modern examination methods generate large amounts of data and the growing specialization of the medical profession makes the problem of storing and managing this data very complex. Computer applications known as Laboratory Information Management Systems (LIMS) have been proposed as tools to address this issue. In this work we propose the FluxMED system, a fully customizable EHR system with an easy to adapt interface for data collection and retrieval. FluxMED can easily be customized to manage different types of medical data. The customization for a new disease can be done in a few hours with the help of a specialist. We have used FluxMED to manage data from patients of three complex diseases, neuromyelitis óptica, paracoccidioidomycosis and adreno-leukodistrofy. These diseases have very different symptoms, different exams are performed to come to a diagnostic and have different treatments. However, FluxMED is able to manage these data in a highly specialized manner without any modifications to its code.