Design of a clinical notification system.
We describe the requirements and design of an enterprise-wide notification system. From published descriptions of notification schemes, our own experience, and use cases provided by diverse users in our institution, we developed a set of functional requirements. The resulting design supports multiple communication channels, third party mappings (algorithms) from message to recipient and/or channel of delivery, and escalation algorithms. A requirement for multiple message formats is addressed by a document specification. We implemented this system in Java as a CORBA object. This paper describes the design and current implementation of our notification system.
Wagner
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Center for Biomedical Informatics, University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine, USA.
Tsui
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Pike
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Pike
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D000465:Algorithms; D003142:Communication; D003195:Computer Communication Networks; D003199:Computer Systems; D006747:Hospital Communication Systems / Q000458:organization & administration*; D011381:Programming Languages; D012984:Software