title: A study on the impact of database design on clinical information systems.
abstract: This paper reports on a research project which aims at addressing one of the most crucial problems in clinical computing--the relation between clinical data and database design and their impacts on Clinical Information Systems. The discussion will focus on a research project that is currently being conducted in a number of acute care hospitals at Melbourne, Australia to investigate the database design for the Emergency Department Information System (EDIS), a subset of the Clinical Information System (CIS).
authors.affiliation: Computer & Nursing Informatics, School of Nursing, Deakin University, Australia.
authors.forename: S C
authors.initials: SC
authors.lastname: Chu
authors.forename: J B
authors.initials: JB
authors.lastname: Thom
mesh_terms: D001315:Australia; D015510:Clinical Medicine; D016208:Databases, Factual; D004636:Emergency Service, Hospital; D006751:Hospital Information Systems; D016347:Medical Records Systems, Computerized; D009323:Natural Language Processing; D012660:Semantics