1. 2. 3. Hybrid Software Architecture For Doctor-Patient Consultation.

2.2.1.1 E-Health 28 2.2.1.2 Telemedicine 29 2.2.1.3 Tele-Health 30 2.2.1.4 Hospital Information System 32 2.2.1.5 Mobile health 34 2.2.1.6 Pervasive Health System 36 2.2.1.7 EMR and HER 36 TABLE OF CONTENTS PAGE DECLARATION APPROVAL DEDICATION ABSTRACT i ABSTRAK ii ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS iii TABLE OF CONTENTS iv LIST OF TABLES vii LIST OF FIGURES viii LIST OF APPENDICES xii LIST OF ABBREVIATIONS xiii LIST OF PUBLICATIONS xv

CHAPTER 1 1.

INTRODUCTION 16 1.1 Overview 16 1.2 Research Objectives 17 1.2.1 To provide a critical study and comparison of the existing architecture 17 1.2.2 To develop a hybrid software architecture for doctor-patient consultation process in clinical information system. 18 1.2.3 To validate the hybrid software architecture. 18 1.2.4 To revise a proposed architecture of the hybrid approach in a doctor-patient consultation computerized systems from the validated architecture. 19 1.3 Research Question 19 1.4 The Problem and Its Context 20 1.5 Significant of Study 21 1.6 Scope of Study 22 1.7 Organization of the Report 24

CHAPTER 2 2.

LITERATURE REVIEW 26 2.1 Introduction 26 2.2 Overview of Health Information System 26 2.2.1 Health Information System 27 4 2.2.2 Significant of Health Information System in Healthcare 37 2.2.3 The component of Health Information System 38 5 2.3 Evaluating of Health Information System Architecture and Framework 40 2.3.1 Early Approach to the Health Information System Framework 40 2.3.2 Review of the Health Information System Framework 44 2.3.2.1 Saman Iftikhar model: A framework based on OWL-S for healthcare Information provision 45 2.3.2.2 Wu et al. 2014 Model: A framework for Questionnaire-Based Healthcare Application Development 46 2.3.2.3 Jelena Mirkovic model: A framework for the development of ubiquitous patient support systems 48 2.3.2.4 Intan Najua model: A Proposed Framework for Healthcare Portal in Malaysia to encourage Knowledge Sharing 50 2.3.2.5 Eswara Reddy model: An Efficient Cloud Framework for Health Care Monitoring System 52 2.3.2.6 M.K. Abd Ghani framework: The Design of Flexible Front End Framework for Accessing Patient Health Records through Short Message Service 58 2.4 Conclusion 61 2.5 Summary 62

CHAPTER 3 3.

METHODOLOGY 63 3.1 Introduction 63 3.2 Overview of Research Methodology 63 3.2.1 Research Strategy 63 3.2.2 Research Design 64 3.2.3 Research Processes and Classification 64 3.2.4 Research Methodology Process 66 3.3 Selection Methodologies 66 3.3.1 Find Research Domain 67 3.3.2 Do Literature Review on Current Research 68 3.3.3 Find and Revise Case Study on Current Architecture 69 3.3.4 Plan Instruments or Tools for Conducting Research 69 3.3.4.1 Interview Questionnaire