Happy birthday DIOGENE: a hospital information system born 20 years ago.
Since its birth in 1978, DIOGENE, the hospital information system of Geneva University Hospital has been constantly evolving, with a major change in 1995, when migrating from a centralized to an open distributed architecture. For a few years, the hospital had to face health policy revolution with both economical constraints and opening of the healthcare network. The hospital information system DIOGENE plays a significant role by integrating four axes of knowledge: medico-economical context for better understanding and influencing resources consumption; the whole set of patient reports and documents (reports, encoded summaries, clinical findings, images, lab data, etc.), patient-dependent knowledge, in a vision integrating time and space; external knowledge bases such as Medline (patient-independent knowledge); integration of these patient-dependent and independent knowledge in a case-based reasoning format, providing on the physician desktop all relevant information for helping him to take the most appropriate adequate decision.
Division d'Informatique Médicale, Geneva University Cantonal Hospital, Switzerland.
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