title: Local area networks and the hospital.
abstract: Hospital information systems are characterized by their complexity of individual functions, heterogeneity of functions, and dependence upon integration. A distributed computerized information system is well suited to meeting the needs of hospitals. A local area communications network (LACN) removes a major impediment to the use of distributed systems. An advanced microprocessor-based LACN using fiberoptic communications has been developed by the Applied Physics Laboratory of The Johns Hopkins University and has been implemented at the University of California, San Francisco Hospital.
mesh_terms: D002140:California; D003201:Computers; D006739:Hospital Administration; D006746:Hospital Bed Capacity, 500 and over; D006747:Hospital Communication Systems; D007256:Information Systems / Q000458:organization & administration*; D008838:Microcomputers