title: A proposed architecture for ambulatory systems development.
abstract: We have developed an architecture and application framework known as the Ambulatory Services Architecture (ASA) for computerized management of patient records for ambulatory care. Our primary design goals included the development of an architecture that will be readily adaptable to advances in technology needed to enhance computerized patient record systems (e.g., multimedia, human-computer interfaces such as voice-to-text, and a fully distributed objects, etc.) and a data model and database implementation capable of providing the flexibility and extensibility needed to support a broad spectrum of specialty medical practices. This report describes the data model, access control, and the client/server components of the Ambulatory Services Architecture.
authors.affiliation: Medical Informatics and Computing Research Program, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, TX 77030, USA.
authors.forename: G J
authors.initials: GJ
authors.lastname: Buffone
authors.forename: C A
authors.initials: CA
authors.lastname: Petermann
authors.forename: R B
authors.initials: RB
authors.lastname: Bobroff
authors.forename: D M
authors.initials: DM
authors.lastname: Moore
authors.forename: R
authors.initials: R
authors.lastname: Dargahi
authors.forename: D R
authors.initials: DR
authors.lastname: Moreau
authors.forename: H S
authors.initials: HS
authors.lastname: Gilson
authors.forename: Y
authors.initials: Y
authors.lastname: Li
authors.forename: J
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Fowler
authors.forename: J R
authors.initials: JR
authors.lastname: Beck
mesh_terms: D000555:Ambulatory Care Information Systems; D003195:Computer Communication Networks; D003199:Computer Systems; D016347:Medical Records Systems, Computerized; D014584:User-Computer Interface