title: An architecture for a health care provider's workstation.
abstract: This paper presents an architecture for a health care provider's workstation designed to assist health care providers in performing their daily activities. The design is based on the concept of a clinician's associate which acts as an intelligent intermediary between the provider and a diverse collection of clinical, administrative, and educational information sources. The architecture is designed to be hardware platform independent, to work across different I/O capabilities, and to be open, allowing specialized applications to be easily integrated with the system and their functionality delivered through a common user environment.
authors.affiliation: USC Information Sciences Institute, Marina del Rey, CA 90292.
authors.forename: R S
authors.initials: RS
authors.lastname: Patil
authors.forename: J S
authors.initials: JS
authors.lastname: Silva
authors.forename: W R
authors.initials: WR
authors.lastname: Swartout
mesh_terms: D003195:Computer Communication Networks; D016287:Computer Peripherals; D003199:Computer Systems; D003628:Database Management Systems; D003660:Decision Support Systems, Management; D003695:Delivery of Health Care; D006282:Health Personnel; D006751:Hospital Information Systems; D006801:Humans; D016247:Information Storage and Retrieval; D007256:Information Systems; D016490:Integrated Advanced Information Management Systems; D008331:Management Information Systems; D016347:Medical Records Systems, Computerized; D012984:Software; D017432:Unified Medical Language System; D014584:User-Computer Interface