title: An intranet database for pacemaker patients.
abstract: A database system, incorporating smartcard technologies, was designed to hold the personal and pacing details of pacemaker patients, who attended a clinic at the Royal Sussex County Hospital (RSCH), Brighton, UK. Following an initial period of a 12 month clinical trial, with the database running on a standalone personal computer, the Pacemaker Patient Database has been redesigned and implemented as an intranet-based system. This paper describes the issues relating to the development of the new prototype system and identifies the design principles for intranet-based electronic health care (EHCR) record database systems.
authors.affiliation: School of Cognitive and Computing Sciences, University of Sussex, Falmer, Brighton, UK.
authors.forename: R A
authors.initials: RA
authors.lastname: Smith
authors.forename: T N
authors.initials: TN
authors.lastname: Arvanitis
authors.forename: M
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: English
authors.forename: R
authors.initials: R
authors.lastname: Vincent
mesh_terms: D003195:Computer Communication Networks; D003628:Database Management Systems; D019992:Databases as Topic; D006801:Humans; D019146:Hypermedia; D016247:Information Storage and Retrieval; D016347:Medical Records Systems, Computerized; D008838:Microcomputers; D010138:Pacemaker, Artificial; D010355:Patient Identification Systems; D012985:Software Design; D014584:User-Computer Interface