A networked electronic patient record system for diabetes.

This paper describes the development and clinical implementation of the SincroDiab--a synchronized diabetes register for the routine clinical practice in a LAN and for design of long-term trials and epidemiological studies based on the GEHR (Good European Health Record) architecture. The objectives of the SincroDiab system were to address the need to establish a more efficient and more effective information infrastructure to improve the ability to share patient record information among health care providers, to reduce the health care delivery costs, to meet the requirements of legal, regulatory or accreditation standards, to share comparable patients data among different sites within a multi-entity health care delivery system and to improve quality of care by network connecting the data repository to clinical workstations and departmental systems.