title: Web-based data integration and annotation in the intensive care unit.
abstract: Integrating patient data to facilitate review and annotation is a challenging task in the intensive care unit (ICU), partially due to the wide variety of proprietary systems and types of data involved. This paper describes SIMON-Web, a Java-based user interface to integrate data from an existing bedside monitoring system and a clinical information system (CIS). SIMON-Web displays graphical data from physiologic monitors and other bedside devices as well as information from the clinical laboratory and physician order-entry systems, and allows users to annotate the data using a point-and-click or free-text interface. By continuing to add functionality to SIMON-Web's extensible user interface, we hope to continue to augment and eventually replace manual care provider data charting in the ICU. As of March, 1997, SIMON-Web has been implemented on two bedside personal computer workstations in the cardiac care unit (CCU) at Vanderbilt University Medical Center.
authors.affiliation: Department of Biomedical Engineering, Vanderbilt University, Nashville, Tennessee, USA.
authors.forename: P R
authors.initials: PR
authors.lastname: Norris
authors.forename: B M
authors.initials: BM
authors.lastname: Dawant
authors.forename: A
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Geissbuhler
mesh_terms: D003195:Computer Communication Networks; D003196:Computer Graphics; D006751:Hospital Information Systems; D007362:Intensive Care Units / Q000458:organization & administration*; D016347:Medical Records Systems, Computerized; D019095:Point-of-Care Systems; D012984:Software; D018511:Systems Integration; D014584:User-Computer Interface