title: HIS/BUI: a conceptual model for bottom-up integration of hospital information systems.
abstract: Many successful applications of information systems have been introduced and implemented in hospitals. However, the integration of these applications into a cohesive hospital-wide information system has proved to be more complicated to develop and difficult to accomplish than expected. This paper introduces HIS/BUI, a framework for bottom-up integration of hospital information systems, and demonstrates its application through a real-life case scenario. The scope of the proposed framework is the integration of heterogeneous clinical, administrative, and financial information elements of a hospital into a unified system environment. Under the integrated architecture, all existing local applications are preserved and interconnected to an information hub that serves as a central medical and administrative data warehouse.
authors.affiliation: Faculty of Management, Tel Aviv University, Ramat Aviv, Israel.
authors.forename: M
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Zviran
authors.forename: A
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Armoni
authors.forename: C
authors.initials: C
authors.lastname: Glezer
mesh_terms: D003195:Computer Communication Networks; D019992:Databases as Topic; D005377:Financial Management, Hospital; D006739:Hospital Administration; D006751:Hospital Information Systems; D006801:Humans; D008122:Local Area Networks; D016347:Medical Records Systems, Computerized; D008962:Models, Theoretical; D012984:Software; D018511:Systems Integration; D014584:User-Computer Interface