The Physician's Workstation: an example of end user integration of information systems.
Many hospitals today have implemented widely disparate information systems on mainframe and mini-computer hardware. The advent of network technology in hospitals has made it possible to access information in these systems. Unfortunately, the user interfaces to applications on these system are unique and difficult to learn, which makes them unsuitable for use by clinical services. In this paper we describe the development using rapid prototyping object-oriented programming tools of a Physician's Workstation which integrates information from five different applications running on three separate computer systems.
Hammond
J E
JE
Department of Pathology, School of Medicine, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill 27514.
Berger
R G
RG
Carey
T S
TS
Rutledge
R
R
Cleveland
T J
TJ
Kichak
J P
JP
Ayscue
C F
CF
D003195:Computer Communication Networks; D006751:Hospital Information Systems; D007256:Information Systems; D016347:Medical Records Systems, Computerized; D008838:Microcomputers; D009657:North Carolina; D012984:Software; D014584:User-Computer Interface