A new clinical information system for emergency psychiatry.
A unique and novel Clinical Information System has been set up to link all of the Psychiatric Emergency Rooms in The Bronx, New York. The system is designed from a clinician's perspective and it is an inexpensive system using personal computers. This new system of information exchange utilizes two interesting aspects of applying computer technology to assist clinicians: 1) use of a scannable medical record form to speed the input of data; and, 2) information exchange among many emergency rooms via a dial up access to a central database.
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Albert Einstein College of Medicine/Montefiore Medical Center, Department of Psychiatry, New York.
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McKegney
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D003195:Computer Communication Networks; D016208:Databases, Factual; D004637:Emergency Services, Psychiatric / Q000458:organization & administration*; D016347:Medical Records Systems, Computerized; D008838:Microcomputers; D009519:New York City; D009862:Online Systems; D012041:Regional Medical Programs