title: A managed care workstation for support of ambulatory care in Veterans Health Administration medical centers.
abstract: This paper describes the development of a Managed Care Workstation for implementation in a Department of Veterans Affairs hospital. Each VA hospital information system contains a wealth of information in a comprehensive and well integrated M database, however, a clinician's access to the information is hampered by a lack of usable database tools. The Managed Care Workstation is designed to enhance access to VA databases. The workstation uses M (Mumps) and SQL to present the VA's M hierarchical database as relational tables on the workstation. This work reveals the benefits of using a SQL-M workstation to access data contained in an M based hospital information system and demonstrates how the workstation architecture supports the information model necessary for management of patient care outcomes.
authors.affiliation: Program in Medical Informatics, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill 27514, USA.
authors.forename: C
authors.initials: C
authors.lastname: Levy
authors.forename: C
authors.initials: C
authors.lastname: Beauchamp
authors.forename: J E
authors.initials: JE
authors.lastname: Hammond
mesh_terms: D000555:Ambulatory Care Information Systems; D003195:Computer Communication Networks; D003626:Data Display; D003628:Database Management Systems; D006751:Hospital Information Systems; D006787:Hospitals, Veterans; D006801:Humans; D008329:Managed Care Programs; D010865:Pilot Projects; D014481:United States; D014493:United States Department of Veterans Affairs; D014584:User-Computer Interface