The design and development of a fully integrated hospital information system.
This paper provides an overview of the design and development of a comprehensive integrated hospital information system for the National Cheng Kung University Hospital. This system was designed for a new hospital, to be built on a 'green field' site, and was developed and installed as an integral component of the building of the hospital and the installation of the medical and administrative facilities. The approach necessitated: 1) the specification of requirements with no users to explain what they needed; 2) a study of capacity without the availability of existing data to predict the workload; 3) a performance study in advance of operation to understand system behavior; and 4) the effective scheduling of implementation to ensure congruence with the building and commissioning of the hospital.
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Department of Medical Informatics, National Cheng Kung University Hospital, Tainan, Taiwan.
Gough
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D003198:Computer Simulation; D003199:Computer Systems; D006751:Hospital Information Systems / Q000458:organization & administration; D017146:Models, Organizational; D018511:Systems Integration; D013624:Taiwan; D016526:Workload