title: ARCANE. A new medical patient information system.
abstract: ARCANE is a new medical patient information system developed at Necker Enfants-malades University Hospital. It was initially dedicated to pediatric nephrology, using microcomputers directly accessible to the physicians. It is however designed for general use and could be directly adapted to many domains in Medicine. ARCANE's referential is based on conceptual slicing close to SNOMED's. The thesaurus is built on keywords or key-expressions. Combination with adjectives and modifiers reduces the volume of the thesaurus to about 1000 entries. Multipurpose use of the data is made available by automatic transcodification to ICD classification and SNOMED nomenclature. External formatting by semantic fields allows the physicians to attribute medical expressions dynamically to concepts of the thesaurus. This system, devoted to daily practice, is also conceived as a clinical research aid and an activity analysis tool.
authors.affiliation: Laboratoire de Biostatistique et d'Informatique Médicale, Groupe hospitalier Necker Enfants-Malades, France.
authors.forename: P
authors.initials: P
authors.lastname: Landais
authors.forename: P
authors.initials: P
authors.lastname: Frutiger
mesh_terms: D003197:Computer Literacy; D003626:Data Display; D005103:Expert Systems; D006757:Hospital Units; D008905:Minicomputers; D009398:Nephrology / Q000145:classification; D010297:Paris; D010372:Pediatrics; D010820:Physicians; D012984:Software; D012985:Software Design