A managed care workstation for support of ambulatory care in Veterans Health Administration medical centers.
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.
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Program in Medical Informatics, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill 27514, USA.
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Hammond
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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