Transfer and Storage of Electronic Health Records Using WCF Web Services

Electronic Health Records (EHR) play an important role in the remote treatment and monitoring of chronical patients. EHR consists of the biological signals and physiological parameters of chronical patients. EHR provides doctors to investigate health signals of cronical patients and obtain perceptible results from these signals. EHR is very big data and this data must be stored according to specific standards. Cronical patients benefit from health care with without leaving their homes and with EHR collected via the Internet. In this study a telemedicine application using WCF that is suitable HL7 standart to improve the EHR data transmission and storage is developed. The facilities for collection of EHR data without leaving home are focused. In addition EHR data is accessed quickly independent XML based programming language through WCF technology and the operation is implemented on this data maintaining the privacy of patients. Moreover, in this study the telemedicine system is used on different platforms such as PC, tablets and PDA owing to WCF technologies.