Health care information: is PAS the answer to the problems of HAA?
PAS--Professional Activity Study--is a patient care information system for short-stay patients, based in the USA, which is 'clinically rich'. By contrast the British, DHSS-sponsored system, HAA (Hospital ACtivity Analysis) is 'clinically impoverished'. This was the comparison drawn by Dr Brain Moores, of the University of Manchester Institute of Science and Technology, in an article which followed a visit he made last year to the headquarters of the Commission on Professional and Hospital Activities (CPHA) at Ann Arbor, Michigan (Journal, 5 December, 1980). Recently, senior officials of CPHA flew to Britain to discuss PAS with an invited audience of British statisticians, administrators, doctors and other information specialists at a two-day seminar in Manchester. It now seems likely that some British health authorities may want to experiment with the PAS approach as an alternative, or a supplement, to HAA. On the other hand, some participants felt that HAA could, potentially, do anything PAS can do.
D000043:Abstracting and Indexing; D003133:Commission on Professional and Hospital Activities; D007256:Information Systems; D008485:Medical Audit; D008499:Medical Records; D008838:Microcomputers; D011785:Quality Assurance, Health Care; D006113:United Kingdom; D014481:United States