title: A unified framework for data modeling on medical information systems.
abstract: Medical Information Systems (MIS) are seen as a way of optimizing the use of existing health-care infrastructure, without resorting to new and costly hospital (re)construction. The qualitative (re)design of such an environment requires a basic understanding of patient and doctors related characteristics and capabilities. Patient care, patient education, medical education, and clinical research need to be considered to meet the basic requirements on the level of services desirable, determined on the basis of the patient's length of stay; i.e., used for modeling the significant entities of such a world. The aim is to extract conclusions for the level of services provided to the users. One's concept will capture, as well as will integrate, the basic design principles under which MIS may be set.
authors.affiliation: Universidade do Minho, Braga, Portugal.
authors.forename: J
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Neves
authors.forename: P
authors.initials: P
authors.lastname: Cortez
authors.forename: M
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Rocha
authors.forename: A
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Abelha
authors.forename: J
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Machado
authors.forename: V
authors.initials: V
authors.lastname: Alves
authors.forename: S
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Basto
authors.forename: H
authors.initials: H
authors.lastname: Botelho
authors.forename: J
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Neves
mesh_terms: D001185:Artificial Intelligence; D003198:Computer Simulation; D003936:Diagnosis, Computer-Assisted; D005103:Expert Systems; D006801:Humans; D008492:Medical Informatics Computing; D012984:Software; D013813:Therapy, Computer-Assisted