title: [Infrastructure of information support to clinical medicine].
abstract: Issues are discussed related with designing an effective infrastructure of the information-and-computer support to clinical medicine with regard for the recent achievements in informatics, automated systems, medical equipment and robotics. It is suggested to focus on creating a module-type infrastructure meeting evenly both the trends towards integration and towards autonomy. A scheme of an information infrastructure constructed for Bakulev's National Center for Cardiovascular Surgery of the Russian Academy of Medical Sciences is described.
mesh_terms: D000465:Algorithms; D001331:Automation; D015510:Clinical Medicine / Q000295:instrumentation; D003199:Computer Systems; D005103:Expert Systems; D006801:Humans; D008490:Medical Informatics; D013677:Medical Laboratory Science; D008991:Monitoring, Physiologic; D012371:Robotics; D013685:Telecommunications