Clinical Information Systems

✍ Scribed by Bruce I. Blum (auth.)

Publisher: Springer-Verlag New York
Year: 1986
Tongue: English
Leaves: 416
Edition: 1
Category: Library

No coin nor oath required. For personal study only.

✦ Synopsis

As its name implies, this book deals with clinical information systems. The clinical information system (or CIS) is an automated system with a long term database containing clinical information used for patient care. This definition excludes business systems (no clinical data), physiological monitoring systems (no long term database), and many research systems (not used in patient care). The theses of this book are (a) that CIS technology is mature, (b) that the CIS will have a major impact upon patient care and the health delivery system, and (c) that the number of commercial systems which now offer these potential benefits is very small. The objective of this book is to establish the above theses and thereby (a) inform both users and developers, (b) increase the demand for more sophisticated products, and finally, (c) provide marketplace incentives to advance the state of the art. The CIS is an application of computer technology for a specific class of problems. Its development requires a knowledge of the technology with an understanding of the application area. As with any tool-based application, the scope of the product will be limited by the capability of the tool. In the case of the CIS, reliable computers with comprehensive database facilities became com mercially available in the early 1970s. By the mid 1970s there was a maturation of the literature, and evaluations of 5-years' use began to appear. As will be shown, there have been surprisingly few new ideas introduced since the 1970s.

✦ Table of Contents

Front Matter....Pages i-xii
Front Matter....Pages 1-1
History of Computers....Pages 3-32
Computers and Health Care....Pages 33-68
Front Matter....Pages 69-69
Overview of Hardware and Software....Pages 71-111
Programming Languages....Pages 112-149
Data Bases....Pages 150-180
System Implementation....Pages 181-213
Front Matter....Pages 215-215
Hospital Information Systems....Pages 217-251
Ambulatory Care Systems....Pages 253-293
Medical Decision Making....Pages 294-340
A Case Study....Pages 341-373
Epilogue....Pages 375-377
Back Matter....Pages 379-414

✦ Subjects

Health Informatics; Computer Appl. in Life Sciences; Information Systems Applications (incl. Internet)

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