Implementation of a large-scale hospital information infrastructure for multi-unit health-care services.
With the increase in demand for high quality medical services, the need for an innovative hospital information system has become essential. An improved system has been implemented in all hospital units of the Yonsei University Health System. Interoperability between multi-units required appropriate hardware infrastructure and software architecture. This large-scale hospital information system encompassed PACS (Picture Archiving and Communications Systems), EMR (Electronic Medical Records) and ERP (Enterprise Resource Planning). It involved two tertiary hospitals and 50 community hospitals. The monthly data production rate by the integrated hospital information system is about 1.8 TByte and the total quantity of data produced so far is about 60 TByte. Large scale information exchange and sharing will be particularly useful for telemedicine applications.
Yoo
Sun K
SK
Department of Medical Engineering, Yonsei University College of Medicine, Seoul, Korea.
Kim
Dong Keun
DK
Kim
Jung C
JC
Park
Youn Jung
YJ
Chang
Byung Chul
BC
D003195:Computer Communication Networks / Q000458:organization & administration* / Q000592:standards; D006751:Hospital Information Systems / Q000458:organization & administration* / Q000592:standards; D006801:Humans; D007723:Korea; D008498:Medical Record Linkage / Q000379:methods* / Q000592:standards; D016347:Medical Records Systems, Computerized / Q000458:organization & administration* / Q000592:standards; D018511:Systems Integration