title: Image engine: an integrated multimedia clinical information system.
abstract: Image Engine is a microcomputer-based system for the integration, storage, retrieval, and sharing of digitized clinical images. The system seeks to address the problem of integrating a wide range of clinically important images with the text-based electronic patient record. Rather than create a single, integrated database system for all clinical data, we are developing a separate image database system that creates real-time, dynamic links to other network-based clinical databases. To the user, this system will present an integrated multimedia representation of the patient record, providing access to both the image and text-based data required for effective clinical decision making.
authors.affiliation: Section of Medical Informatics, University of Pittsburgh, PA, USA.
authors.forename: H J
authors.initials: HJ
authors.lastname: Lowe
authors.forename: B G
authors.initials: BG
authors.lastname: Buchanan
authors.forename: G F
authors.initials: GF
authors.lastname: Cooper
authors.forename: B
authors.initials: B
authors.lastname: Kaplan
authors.forename: J K
authors.initials: JK
authors.lastname: Vries
mesh_terms: D000043:Abstracting and Indexing; D003195:Computer Communication Networks; D003626:Data Display; D003658:Decision Making, Computer-Assisted; D016347:Medical Records Systems, Computerized; D008838:Microcomputers; D011873:Radiology Information Systems