title: IAIMS and sharing.
abstract: The Integrated Academic Information Management System (IAIMS) concept is about sharing resources and information, and about improving the decision-making ability of health care professionals by integrating information. At Columbia-Presbyterian Medical Center, the IAIMS project has established an information architecture based on common, shared computing and networking resources. The institutional computing culture has been changed with increased sharing of information and, consequently, improved quality of information. Several classes of information in the areas of clinical, scholarly, administrative, basic research, and core resources have been identified for better understanding of information responsibility. Technical problems such as heterogeneity on workstation platforms and lack of universal syntactic and semantic standards for health care information exchange still impede inter-institutional sharing of information.
authors.affiliation: Center for Medical Informatics, Columbia-Presbyterian Medical Center, New York, NY 10032.
authors.forename: S
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Sengupta
authors.forename: P D
authors.initials: PD
authors.lastname: Clayton
authors.forename: P
authors.initials: P
authors.lastname: Molholt
authors.forename: R V
authors.initials: RV
authors.lastname: Sideli
authors.forename: J J
authors.initials: JJ
authors.lastname: Cimino
authors.forename: G
authors.initials: G
authors.lastname: Hripcsak
authors.forename: S B
authors.initials: SB
authors.lastname: Johnson
authors.forename: B
authors.initials: B
authors.lastname: Allen
authors.forename: M
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: McCormack
authors.forename: C
authors.initials: C
authors.lastname: Hill
mesh_terms: D001185:Artificial Intelligence; D003195:Computer Communication Networks; D003199:Computer Systems; D003194:Computer-Assisted Instruction; D003658:Decision Making, Computer-Assisted; D003695:Delivery of Health Care; D004282:Documentation; D004501:Education, Medical; D006801:Humans; D007256:Information Systems; D016490:Integrated Advanced Information Management Systems; D016239:MEDLINE; D008331:Management Information Systems; D016347:Medical Records Systems, Computerized; D012106:Research; D012984:Software; D014584:User-Computer Interface