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VOA慢速英语:Malawi Hospital Expands Use of Electronic Records
来自美国之音慢速英语,这里是健康报道。
Electronic medical records are not only for wealthy, industrialized countries. A test project in Southern Africa suggests that using computers to store medical information may also be a good investment in poor countries.
电子病历不仅在发达的工业国家有使用,南非的一项测试项目表明,使用计算机来存储医疗信息对贫困国家来说是项很好的投资。
Electronic medical records have been used for about ten years in Malawi to follow the progress of patients with HIV. Now the program is being expanded at Queen Elizabeth Central Hospital in Blantyre. The program is called SPINE – Surveillance Program of Inpatients and Epidemiology. It has three goals. The first is collecting basic information about patients’ medical problems. Dr. Miguel San Joaquin says the second goal is to look for changes in the health of all patients with HIV.
马拉维使用电子病历已经10多年了,用于跟踪艾滋病患者的治疗进展。目前该项目已推广到布兰太尔的伊丽莎白女王中心医院,项目名为“住院病人流行病学监测计划”,项目有三个目的,一是收集病人病情的基本信息,Miguel San Joaquin医生说第二个目标是寻找所有艾滋病人健康状况的变化情况。
“For example, there are issues like how are antiretrovirals working. Are certain diseases like pneumonia going down because of the introduction of new vaccines, and so on and so forth.”
“例如,说关于抗逆转录病毒的运作情况,以及肺炎一类疾病是否因为新疫苗的引进而减少等等。”
Dr. San Joaquin says the third goal is to help individual patients directly. Patients receive clearly printed information when they leave the hospital so they understand how to take their medicine and what they should do next. This paper is included in a document called a health passport and replaces handwritten instructions that patients received in the past.
San Joaquin医生说第三个目标是直接帮助个体病人,病人出院时会收到有关病情的详细的印刷资料,就知道如何服药和下一步怎么办。这张纸包含在一个被称为健康护照的文档中,用来取代过去的手写医嘱。。
“Now there is a very neat and clear prescription on a piece of paper that is attached inside their health passport for their benefit.”
“现在健康护照上还有详细的医嘱,这就方便了病人。”
The electronic information also gives health officials new tools to deal with outbreaks of disease or other health emergencies.
该电子信息还给了卫生官员处理疾病爆发等突发卫生事件的工具。
There are some challenges that make it difficult to use electronic medical records more widely. Dr. San Joaquin says it takes time to put information into a computer. Electricity often fails and so do computers. It also costs about $200,000 to start an electronic records program. For the hospital in Malawi, those costs were covered by donations from Europe.
然而,要广泛推广电子医疗记录还有很多困难。San Joaquin说,将信息输入电脑需要花费时间。经常停电导致电脑无法使用。另外启动一个电子档案项目需要花费20万美元。对马拉维的这家医院来说,这些费用来自欧洲的捐款。
The United Nations Global Strategy for Women and Children’s Health has a goal of saving the lives of 16 million mothers and children in 75 target countries by 2015. All of these target countries have been directed to include electronic records and other information technology in their national health care systems.
联合国全球妇女与儿童保健战略设定了在2015年之前拯救75个国家的1600万名母亲和儿童生命的目标。所有这些国家都要将电子记录和其他信息技术包含在全国医疗体系中。
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