Physicians' workstations: integrated information management for clinicians.
This paper describes a project to specify, design, develop, and evaluate a physician's workstation for use in patient care. We conducted an ethnographic study of physicians' information needs in an outpatient setting, from which we derived a set of functional specifications for a physician's workstation. We have implemented an experimental prototype using an open systems, client/server architecture, and are exploring research issues in heterogeneous database integration, object-oriented database technology, model-based reasoning, and semantic integration. We plan to evaluate our workstation prototype in a clinical setting to assess its impact on quality of care and health care costs.
Tang
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PC
Hewlett-Packard Laboratories, Palo Alto, CA 94303.
Annevelink
J
J
Fafchamps
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Stanton
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Young
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D001185:Artificial Intelligence; D016208:Databases, Factual; D016347:Medical Records Systems, Computerized; D008838:Microcomputers