Implementing Health Care Information Systems

✍ Scribed by B. I. Blum, H. F. Orthner (auth.), Helmuth F. Orthner Ph.D., Bruce I. Blum (eds.)

• Publisher: Springer-Verlag New York
• Year: 1989
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 449
• Series: Computers and Medicine
• Edition: 1
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

This series in Computers and Medicine had its origins when I met Jerry Stone of Springer-Verlag at a SCAMC meeting in 1982. We determined that there was a need for good collections of papers that would help disseminate the results of research and application in this field. I had already decided to do what is now Information Systems for Patient Care, and Jerry contributed the idea of making it part of a series. In 1984 the first book was published, and-thanks to Jerry's efforts - Computers and Medicine was underway. Since that time, there have been many changes. Sadly, Jerry died at a very early age and cannot share in the success of the series that he helped found. On the bright side, however, many of the early goals of the series have been met. As the result of equipment improvements and the consequent lowering of costs, com­ puters are being used in a growing number of medical applications, and the health care community is very computer literate. Thus, the focus of concern has turned from learning about the technology to understanding how that technology can be exploited in a medical environment.

✦ Table of Contents

Front Matter....Pages i-xx
Front Matter....Pages 1-1
Implementing Health Care Information Systems....Pages 3-21
Medical Informatics—Phase II....Pages 22-29
Front Matter....Pages 31-31
The Evolution of GEMISCH and TMR....Pages 33-66
The Benefits of Automated Medical Record Systems for Ambulatory Care....Pages 67-84
The Application of Computer-Based Medical-Record Systems in Ambulatory Practice....Pages 85-99
A Hospital Information System in Continuous Operation and Expansion....Pages 100-122
New Uses of a Large Clinical Data Base....Pages 123-132
Large-Scale Portability of Hospital Information System Software Within the Veterans Administration....Pages 133-148
A Hospital Information System Network....Pages 149-163
Front Matter....Pages 165-165
Architecture of SNOMED....Pages 167-179
An Indexing System for SNOMED....Pages 180-197
Automated Mapping of ICD into SNOMED....Pages 198-204
Classification Systems Affecting Remuneration....Pages 205-212
Severity of Illness, Hospital Length of Stay, and Admission Clinical Laboratory Test Data from Apache II....Pages 213-221
Data Protection in Hospital Information Systems: 1. Definition and Overview....Pages 222-253
Data Protection in Hospital Information Systems: 2. Software Methods and Techniques....Pages 254-273
Front Matter....Pages 275-276
Design Methodology....Pages 277-295
Interactive Development Environments for Information Systems....Pages 296-312
The TEDIUM Development Environment....Pages 313-352
The LISP Programming Language and Environments....Pages 353-364
Front Matter....Pages 275-276
The HELP System Development Tools....Pages 365-383
The GEMISCH Programming Language....Pages 384-395
The MUMPS Programming Language....Pages 396-420
AIDA: A MUMPS Development Environment....Pages 421-434
Back Matter....Pages 435-438

✦ Subjects

Health Informatics; System Performance and Evaluation; Computer Appl. in Life Sciences