abstract：:Medical informatics is the science of information processing and the creation of information processing systems in medicine and health care delivery. Its methodological approach is based on the area specific applicability of a multidisciplinary theory of engineering and managing computerized information systems relate...

journal_title：Journal of medical systems

authors： Seelos HJ

更新日期：1993-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The aim of this paper is to introduce the soft systemic approach to medical information system design, called metaparadigm. The metaparadigm is a metadesign paradigm. Using it we first design an IS design paradigm and it is our deep belief that metaparadigms employment can enhance many conventional IS design weaknesse...

journal_title：Journal of medical systems

authors： Kokol P

更新日期：1993-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A new simulation system of diagnostic and therapeutic processes is developed. The aim is to train medical students for the practical use of their knowledge, utilizing patient data in a total hospital information system. The knowledge in the system is presented by the specialists for every case. In medical school there...

journal_title：Journal of medical systems

authors： Kurihara Y,Kitazoe Y,Okuhara Y,Narita Y,Ozawa T

更新日期：1992-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Since a substantial component of health care delivery is reflected in nursing's work, it is imperative that nursing expedites implementation of a standardized language that reflects nursing's work and ultimately allows outcome evaluation. This paper will summarize the state of development and related issues of standar...

journal_title：Journal of medical systems

authors： Delaney C,Mehmert PA,Prophet C,Bellinger SL,Huber DG,Ellerbe S

更新日期：1992-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The University of Nebraska Medical Center maintains the Synapse Health Information Network to provide timely clinical and library resource information to health professionals across Nebraska and surrounding regions. The system is in over 115 sites across Nebraska and surrounding regions and maintains over 320 network ...

journal_title：Journal of medical systems

authors： Meter RK

更新日期：1992-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This article describes practical applications of the Continuous Quality Improvement (CQI) concept applied to management of the Information Services Departments of a health care institution. The article is valuable for two reasons: (1) it is valuable as a successful application of CQI in an award-winning information se...

journal_title：Journal of medical systems

authors： Minard B

更新日期：1991-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:MDA-Image, a project of The University of Texas M. D. Anderson Cancer Center, is an environment of networked desktop computers for teleradiology/pathology. Radiographic film is digitized with a film scanner and histopathologic slides are digitized using a red, green, and blue (RGB) video camera connected to a microsco...

journal_title：Journal of medical systems

authors： Moffitt ME,Richli WR,Carrasco CH,Wallace S,Zimmerman SO,Ayala AG,Benjamin RS,Chee S,Wood P,Daniels P

更新日期：1991-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In a previous paper, the authors described three paradigms applicable to automated medical text analysis. In this paper, the relative importance of the three paradigms is discussed, viz. the relative value of the linguistic word categorization, the semantic paradigm, and the medical fact delineation. The strategy adop...

journal_title：Journal of medical systems

authors： Gabrieli ER,Speth DJ

更新日期：1991-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The increasing importance of computer-stored databases for clinical research prompted a historical review of their evolution over the past three decades. The special problems associated with the computer processing of clinical research data were reviewed, and the various types of clinical research registers and databa...

journal_title：Journal of medical systems

authors： Collen MF

更新日期：1990-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:New computer tools for physicians, nurses, and the medical care team will become common in the 1990s. This paper describes a clinical workstation (CWS) development project that uses new technology that moves the technical support for medical decision making from the computer room to the nursing station. Collection, pr...

journal_title：Journal of medical systems

authors： Lenhard RE,Kahane SN,Richmond DW,Phipps KJ,Ardolino MK,Kearney LA,Lifshitz K

更新日期：1990-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The evaluation of programs with multiple, and potentially conflicting, goals requires the integration of measures of goal achievement that often are not easily combined. One approach is the development of analytical themes which span the various goals of a particular program. The themes provide a mechanism by which th...

journal_title：Journal of medical systems

authors： Gillings D,Ricketts TC 3rd,Barnsley JM,Kaluzny AD,Ford L,Warnecke R,Sondik E

更新日期：1990-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A radiotherapy treatment planning system has been installed on a personal computer and was developed to meet the clinical demands and budgetary constraints of any radiotherapy department. The system consists of an IBM compatible PC-AT computer with a 16 bit microprocessor, 40 MB hard disk drive, and a 5-1/4'' floppy d...

journal_title：Journal of medical systems

authors： Sharma VK,Kapoor SL

更新日期：1990-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The author presents the complex scientific and technical foundation of the recently completed biomedical nomenclature. This nomenclature places all the terms into a single hierarchical order. Computer-compatibility is achieved by the numeric representation of the location ("address") of the term on the hierarchical tr...

journal_title：Journal of medical systems

authors： Gabrieli ER

更新日期：1989-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A prototyped model of a generalized table-driven software package for laboratory testing and results registration is presented. The need to computerize dozens of laboratories performing hundreds of tests, called for a radical approach which would enable the quick addition of new laboratories to the system, as well as ...

journal_title：Journal of medical systems

authors： Lazinger B

更新日期：1989-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This paper describes the instrumentation developed for a clinical system that measures upper extremity kinematics in normal and cerebral palsied children. The ability to diagnose cerebral palsy during early and midinfancy is influenced by the fact that movement and postural abnormalities become apparent only over time...

journal_title：Journal of medical systems

authors： Eckhouse RH Jr,Maulucci RA,Leonard E

更新日期：1989-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:As health care providers seek ways to reduce the cost of health care services, hospital operating rooms (ORs) have been identified as potential areas for cost reduction efforts. Cost containment efforts which have shifted significant portions of the inpatient population to ambulatory areas have resulted in an inpatien...

journal_title：Journal of medical systems

authors： Gordon T,Paul S,Lyles A,Fountain J

更新日期：1988-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The Genetic Diseases Program of the Illinois Department of Public Health has completed the requirements for automation of its newborn screening follow-up services. The integration of two databases containing laboratory and follow-up elements allows the system to: (1) process on-line information about both normal and a...

journal_title：Journal of medical systems

authors： Kling S,Nash C,Jones D

更新日期：1988-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This paper describes AI/LEARN, an educational videodisk system designed to teach clinical observational skills and reasoning in medicine. The AI/LEARN system uses a learning conditions approach to teaching. To teach visual concepts, we use the principle of exemplar/nonexemplar pairs and immediate feedback. To teach If...

journal_title：Journal of medical systems

authors： Mitchell JA,Lee AS,TenBrink T,Cutts JH 3rd,Clark DP,Hazelwood S,Jackson R,Bickel J,Gaunt W,Ladenson RP

更新日期：1987-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Queueing analysis is a mathematical technique which is used for studying characteristics of queueing (waiting) for service. Recent development of improved software systems has made the technique easily available and versatile using a microcomputer. In this study the characteristics of examination time and interarrival...

journal_title：Journal of medical systems

authors： Rosenquist CJ

更新日期：1987-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This paper will address the complex issues of effective cost management and declining inpatient volume. Utilizing a microcomputer-based physician incentive compensation program, it will show how a hospital developed a plan to increase inpatient hospital utilization and improve cost management. It will discuss the Inte...

journal_title：Journal of medical systems

authors： Annis RJ,Holton JW

更新日期：1987-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:To reduce the frequency of errors associated with hematology specimens and requisitions arriving in the hematology laboratories of a large urban teaching hospital, an intervention was conducted to alter the behavior of the medical students, interns, residents, and board-qualified physicians who ordered the tests, comp...

journal_title：Journal of medical systems

authors： Chmura A

更新日期：1987-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:It is often impossible to determine the presence of the fetal QRS waves from leads on the maternal abdomen because the amplitude is small or noise interferes. Yet, clinically, confirmation is highly necessary. Clinicians face a great difficulty when the fetal QRS waves are not identifiable: when, for example, they are...

journal_title：Journal of medical systems

authors： Yano F,Ninomija SP

更新日期：1986-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Computer-assisted instruction holds promise for individualizing continuing education programs. This article describes how staff nurse educators are taught how to use the principles of instructional design to write clinical nursing simulations. At the conclusion of a 15-hour workshop participants have written, programm...

journal_title：Journal of medical systems

authors： Dooling SL

更新日期：1986-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We describe the new Computerized Severity Index (CSI) that is obtained from an expanded discharge abstract data set, based on a 6th-digit severity addition to the ICD-9-CM coding system. The new 6-digit code book (called ICD-9-CMSA) is used to label existence and severity of each principal and secondary diagnosis. It ...

journal_title：Journal of medical systems

authors： Horn SD,Horn RA

更新日期：1986-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Executives of small hospitals and home health services have heard that this is the Age of Computers, Telecommunications, Robotics, and Gene Engineering, and they wonder if their organizations might benefit from the high technology and advanced management tools employed by big corporations and "leading edge" hospitals....

journal_title：Journal of medical systems

authors： Mendell JS,Sarkis H

更新日期：1986-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The MEGADATS pedigree plotting system, described in this paper, is designed to display a human pedigree on a graphics device such as a pen plotter. The plotting algorithm, which is order n in disk reads, where n is the number of individuals, is presented. Example plots are given, including a family with multiple mates...

journal_title：Journal of medical systems

authors： Beidleman K,Gersting J

更新日期：1985-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The goals of occupational health information and surveillance systems are outlined together with the components required to achieve these objectives. The various input sources (different divisions within the concerned organization) are identified and major types of output reports of the system are described. These gen...

journal_title：Journal of medical systems

authors： Carel RS,Levine MS

更新日期：1984-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This paper describes the implementation of a computerized nosocomial infection control system for a 500-bed tertiary-care teaching hospital. It is implemented on a minicomputer that uses the relational data base management system INGRES, which is marketed by Relational Technology, Inc. This system, which replaces a ma...

journal_title：Journal of medical systems

authors： Etersque S,Carter MJ,Gordon KR,Sutherland JG

更新日期：1984-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In developing countries, blindness is a major health problem whose control depends on the application of simple measures by frontline workers because, in many of these countries, specialist medical care is not readily available. To assist primary health workers in the management of common and potentially blinding eye ...

journal_title：Journal of medical systems

authors： Kastner JK,Dawson CR,Weiss SM,Kern KB,Kulikowski CA

更新日期：1984-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Recognizing that the suboptimal allocation of plant assets contribute to the inflationary pressures in the health industry, this paper employs the principles of goal programming to develop a model for distributing diagnostic-specific technology among potential recipients in a given geographic region. The model allocat...

journal_title：Journal of medical systems

authors： Ozatalay S,Broyles RW

更新日期：1984-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This paper describes a high-speed digital lightbox. The current status of film in the medical imaging department sets the stage for this next generation of image display/management systems. Digital imaging devices are proliferating because of their diagnostic speed and accuracy, and their ease of use. However, the res...

journal_title：Journal of medical systems

authors： Gray M,Rutherford H

更新日期：1984-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The description is presented of the system design and implementation experience obtained while providing the data management for a case-control study involving a large number of variables. Topics concerning questionnaire design, data collection, data coding, data entry, data edit, and data storage and retrieval are di...

journal_title：Journal of medical systems

authors： Eyman JM,Van Lier SF,Everett GD

更新日期：1984-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This paper describes the cost-benefit analysis of a computerized medical record system for use in physicians' offices. Actual data for savings in physician time in paper work was collected. The qualitative benefits of the system were evaluated using a questionnaire. The cost-benefit ratios demonstrated that the use of...

journal_title：Journal of medical systems

authors： Saxena U,Sit CS,Forward DJ

更新日期：1983-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Attention to the quality of information in design of a medical information system is fundamental to the success of that system. This point is made using WWI and WWII combat casualty statistics. While the analyses presented are legitimate, serious problems of interpretation arise from the operational definitions used i...

journal_title：Journal of medical systems

authors： Henderson JV

更新日期：1983-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Data pertinent to any one hospital patient are often distributed across several independent heterogeneous computer systems serving different functional areas of the hospital. A global, integrated hospital information system can evolve from this situation if existing computer systems are linked by a local area network ...

journal_title：Journal of medical systems

authors： Brusil PJ

更新日期：1983-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Operating systems and programming languages differ widely in their suitability for particular applications. The diversity of medical computing needs demands a diversity of solutions. Compounding this diversity if the decentralization caused by evolution of local computing systems for local needs. Relevant current tren...

journal_title：Journal of medical systems

authors： Greenes RA

更新日期：1983-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The definition of the fiscal unit/family structure has enabled users of the FMIS, or family practices in Colorado and Wyoming, to maintain accurate, ongoing financial information on their patients. In turn, this structure has been a major incentive for maintaining accurate family information, and a distinct benefit to...

journal_title：Journal of medical systems

authors： Hofman MN,Hughes RL

更新日期：1982-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Multidimensional computer graphics are demonstrated in two medical systems applications in this paper. First, multidimensional computer graphics are utilized for descriptive purposes to show the differences among 10 physician specialty groups for multivariate data available at admission to medical school. Second, mult...

journal_title：Journal of medical systems

authors： Watson CJ,Watson RD,Stephenson N

更新日期：1982-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:An experiment is described in which a significant part of the INTERNIST knowledge base for diagnosis in internal medicine is translated into an EXPERT model. INTERNIST employs the largest and broadest knowledge base of all the medical consultation systems that have been developed in recent years. EXPERT is a general s...

journal_title：Journal of medical systems

authors： Goldberg RN,Weiss SM

更新日期：1982-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The regionalization of health services is fundamentally based on a system of allocation of resources. The VA appears to have adopted the philosophies of regionalization by forming a network of 28 medical care districts that share the system budgeting responsibility. This approach tends to ignore population aspects, sp...

journal_title：Journal of medical systems

authors： Williams SJ

更新日期：1981-01-01 00:00:00