PEN&PAD (Geriatrics): a Collaborative Patient Record System for the shared care of the elderly.
The PEN&PAD (Geriatrics) project seeks to develop a Collaborative Patient Record System for the hospital based shared care of the elderly. The goal of the project is to produce a single, integrated information system which is both useful and usable by the different practitioner groups involved in geriatric care. A User Centred Design methodology is proposed which makes users and human issues central to the design and development process. Preliminary results indicate that the specification of a Minimum Basic Data Set as the basis of a shared record system is infeasible and undesirable. An architecture is presented which illustrates how the diversity between the different disciplines may be preserved in a Collaborative Patient Record System.
Heathfield
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Department of Computer Science, University of Manchester, UK.
Kirby
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J
Nowlan
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Rector
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D005853:Geriatrics; D006751:Hospital Information Systems; D006801:Humans; D016347:Medical Records Systems, Computerized; D006113:United Kingdom