Overview of an architectural approach to the development of the Johns Hopkins Hospital distributed clinical information system.
The Johns Hopkins Hospital has initiated an ambitious program to apply modern technologies to the development of a new, comprehensive clinical information system. Since many components of a system exist and since the JHH management is decentralized, a distributed, networked system is being built. To properly accomplish this task an architectural basis for strategic systems planning was developed. This paper reviews briefly the layered architectural approach.
D003195:Computer Communication Networks; D003199:Computer Systems; D003201:Computers; D003628:Database Management Systems; D006746:Hospital Bed Capacity, 500 and over; D006751:Hospital Information Systems; D008122:Local Area Networks; D008396:Maryland; D008962:Models, Theoretical