In partial fulfillment of the Requirements for the Degree of

Master of Science

will defend her thesis

A "Clinic Note System" written in Perl script runs on a Linux platform in the Department of Otolaryngology at the University of Texas Galveston Medical Branch (UTMB), Galveston, Texas. Faculty and resident physicians at UTMB use this system to create customized clinic notes (patient archives) as text format when they encounter patients.

This thesis develops a medical database search system on a Linux platform. Users can utilize this system to find a patient’s archives based on the patient’s last name, the patient’s unit history number, the patient’s visiting time or a combination of these three criteria. We chose MySQL as our database management system and Perl as programming language. Perl DBI technology was used to access MySQL from Perl script. This thesis made it possible that users can not only utilize the existing "Clinic Note System" to create the patient archives, but also utilize the search system to find them later based on some criterion.

Date: Friday, November 10, 2000

Time: 10:00 AM

Place: 550-PGH

Faculty, students, and the general public are invited.

Thesis Advisor: Dr. Ernst Leiss