A Granular Ontology Model for Maternal and Child Health Information System

Table 10

Comparison of proposed MCH system with existing techniques.

Feature	Proposed	Techniques in use	OpenEMR	OpenMRS
HL7 FHIR or other health standard for information modeling	Yes	No	Standard-based medical billing	HL7 engine for data import
RESTful web services	Yes	No	No	Yes
MongoDB or other NoSQL data stores	Yes	No	No	No
Open-source web-based solution	Yes	No	Yes	Yes
Access for patients	Capability to view all personal records	Some provide access to lab reports only	Yes	Yes
	Calculation of BMI
Record of complete patient history (past pregnancies, medications, allergies, surgeries)	Yes	Few hospitals maintain discharge summaries of inpatients and lab reports	Yes	Yes
Minimal chances of losing patient records	Yes	No	Yes	Yes
Easier record maintenance	Yes	No	Yes	Yes
Efficient retrieval	Yes	No	Yes	Yes
Reliable data for research and analysis	Yes	No	Yes	Yes