gms | German Medical Science

Introduction: Digital health data are an integral part of high level patient safety and quality assurance. To achieve steady flow of reliable information, intelligent and adapted database management systems (DBMS) are crucial. The objective of this analysis was to investigate the impact of a proprietary DBMS on quality and safety at the surgical department of a university hospital. The practical use and technical background of ChiBase^© together with the implementation of quality assurance and patient safety will be presented.

Material and methods: ChiBase^© is a proprietary DBMS developed by surgeons in cooperation with computer scientists using FileMaker Pro 11^©.The integration in hospital information system was realized by HL7^© interface. To accomplish audit criteria several security standards were included.

Results: The implementation of Chibase^© over a three year period has proved its worth in daily surgical routine in terms of enhancing patient safety and quality assurance. By continuous optimization of patient coordination and monitoring together with constant assessment of surgical procedures, it was possible to have an important contribution to increase patient safety.

Conclusion: ChiBase^© meets all standards to implement evidence based medicine in daily clinical routine with high safety standards. It provides high data quality and security, data independence and redundancy-depleting. By ensuring seamless and complete documentation our DBMS supports highest level of quality assurance for best patient safety.