ELIAS

Introduction

ELIAS is a system supporting both administrative and medical data processing for General practitioners(GP). It also offers research facilities to GP's using their own data and priovides tools to participate in multi-center studies. ELIAS is written in ANSI MUMPS, developed by Academic Hospital of the Free University, Amsterdam, The Netherlands. ELIAS first version was developed between 1983-1985, and in December 1992 it was used by 14% of the general physicians.

The aim of ELIAS is to optimize General Practice:

• the programization of primary care
• the acquisition and maintenance of the medial record
• preventive medical care
• research in primary care

ELIAS has five modules, the financial, pharmacy, patient-record, and communication.

Aiming to support and coordinate shared care using electronic data interchange, its communication module was modified in a project using "MEDEUR", a message designed for integrating patient data exchange between computer-based patient records. It was performed for developing and testing its electronic data interchange functionality and its integrated composing and storing of electronic messages.(1)

Reference

• Johan Van der lei et al.The Introduction of Computer-based Patient Records in the Netherlands. Ann Intern Med. 1993;119:1036-1041.
• T.A. Griep, H.P. Westerhof, W.M. Boon. ELIAS: A System for the general Practitioner. Proceedings of MedInfo 1986;1146.

(1) Coordinating shared care using electronic data interchange; Medinfo. 1995;8 Pt 2:1669.

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