title: Providing an integrated clinical data view in a hospital information system that manages multimedia data.
abstract: The VA's hospital information system, the Decentralized Hospital Computer Program (DHCP), is an integrated system based on a powerful set of software tools with shared data accessible from any of its application modules. It includes many functionally specific application subsystems such as laboratory, pharmacy, radiology, and dietetics. Physicians need applications that cross these application boundaries to provide useful and convenient patient data. One of these multi-specialty applications, the DHCP Imaging System, integrates multimedia data to provide clinicians with comprehensive patient-oriented information. User requirements for cross-disciplinary image access can be studied to define needs for similar text data access. Integration approaches must be evaluated both for their ability to deliver patient-oriented text data rapidly and their ability to integrate multimedia data objects. Several potential integration approaches are described as they relate to the DHCP Imaging System.
authors.affiliation: Washington Information Systems Center, Dept. of Veterans Affairs, Silver Spring, Maryland 20910.
authors.forename: R E
authors.initials: RE
authors.lastname: Dayhoff
authors.forename: D L
authors.initials: DL
authors.lastname: Maloney
authors.forename: T J
authors.initials: TJ
authors.lastname: Kenney
authors.forename: R D
authors.initials: RD
authors.lastname: Fletcher
mesh_terms: D003195:Computer Communication Networks; D003628:Database Management Systems; D003952:Diagnostic Imaging; D006751:Hospital Information Systems; D007090:Image Interpretation, Computer-Assisted / Q000379:methods; D016247:Information Storage and Retrieval; D016347:Medical Records Systems, Computerized; D012984:Software; D014481:United States; D014493:United States Department of Veterans Affairs