title: The health care professional multimedia workstation: development and integration issues.
abstract: Workstations for health care professionals provide access to distributed healthcare information systems. They are complex systems that have to manage, in a unified framework, the distributed and multimedia information needed for optimal patient care. The objective is to provide the end-user with a virtual and unified device that conceals the complexity of the underlying information system. Integration and reuse of modular software components are important in the development of such a workstation. A reference set of evaluation criteria is proposed that includes functional, technical, organizational, medical, cultural and ethical, economic and industrial components.
authors.affiliation: Broussais University Hospital, Paris, France.
authors.forename: P
authors.initials: P
authors.lastname: Degoulet
authors.forename: F C
authors.initials: FC
authors.lastname: Jean
authors.forename: C
authors.initials: C
authors.lastname: Safran
mesh_terms: D003195:Computer Communication Networks; D003196:Computer Graphics; D003199:Computer Systems; D016288:Computer Terminals; D007256:Information Systems; D016347:Medical Records Systems, Computerized / Q000458:organization & administration; D012984:Software; D018511:Systems Integration; D014584:User-Computer Interface