Piecing together a distributed system at Albany Medical Center.
When, after decades of debate, Albany Medical Center Hospital and Albany Medical College joined under an umbrella corporation in 1982, AMC started down the path toward an integrated clinical information system. What makes the AMC HIS--parts of which are still in prototype--notable, is its use of leading edge, if relatively new, systems.
D000046:Academic Medical Centers / Q000458:organization & administration*; D003195:Computer Communication Networks; D003199:Computer Systems; D006746:Hospital Bed Capacity, 500 and over; D006751:Hospital Information Systems; D008962:Models, Theoretical; D009518:New York