Savannah River Site: Electronic

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Savannah River Site

Electronic

Medical Information System (MIS), ca. 1950-Current

Location: Active: SRS, Building 719A, Room 130

*Access Restrictions*: Database is unclassified and may be a Privacy Act System of records; Building 719A is in a security-controlled area.	*Location of Codebooks and Manuals:* User guide located behind computer
*Location of Storage Media*: System is backed up daily on storage media stored in various locations across the site.	*Hardware/Software:* IBM 3270 mainframe/ADABAS database management system

Office/Program Supported by the System: Medical Department of E. I. du Pont de Nemours and Company and Westinghouse Savannah River Company

Disposition Authority: Unscheduled

System Description: This system is used to store and retrieve medical data regarding former and current Savannah River Site employees, record daily schedules, route patients, perform quantitative analysis, report internal statistics, and provide epidemiologic information. Inputs to this system include data from the Human Resources Database, Confidential Health History, Confidential Internal Health History, and Physical Examination. Information includes histories of health, disease, and disability, as well as results of physical examinations, laboratory tests, X-rays, and diagnostic evaluations of vision, hearing, lung capacity, and cardiac function. Collection of this data is mandated by Department of Energy Order 5480.8A, as well as several federal and state regulations. Records are sent to remote medical department offices across the site through a records tracking system, which also provides dates for upcoming physical examinations and other diagnostic evaluations. Through the Medical Information System Instrument Interface, Medical Department staff input test results taken from instruments during the procedure. Outputs of this system are the Test Results Summary Printout and the locations of medical records.

Data Elements: 7-8, 16-17, 20, 35, 37-38, 40, 42, 44-45, 47