title: Object-oriented analysis and design of an ECG storage and retrieval system integrated with an HIS.
abstract: For a hospital information system, object-oriented methodology plays an increasingly important role, especially for the management of digitized data, e.g., the electrocardiogram, electroencephalogram, electromyogram, spirogram, X-ray, CT and histopathological images, which are not yet computerized in most hospitals. As a first step in an object-oriented approach to hospital information management and storing medical data in an object-oriented database, we connected electrocardiographs to a hospital network and established the integration of ECG storage and retrieval systems with a hospital information system. In this paper, the object-oriented analysis and design of the ECG storage and retrieval systems is reported.
authors.affiliation: Hospital Computer Center, University of Tokyo Hospital, Japan.
authors.forename: C
authors.initials: C
authors.lastname: Wang
authors.forename: K
authors.initials: K
authors.lastname: Ohe
authors.forename: T
authors.initials: T
authors.lastname: Sakurai
authors.forename: T
authors.initials: T
authors.lastname: Nagase
authors.forename: S
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Kaihara
mesh_terms: D003201:Computers; D003628:Database Management Systems; D004562:Electrocardiography / Q000295:instrumentation*; D006753:Hospital Records; D006801:Humans; D016347:Medical Records Systems, Computerized / Q000295:instrumentation*; D012815:Signal Processing, Computer-Assisted / Q000295:instrumentation*; D012984:Software