Focus on the frontiers of informatics: call for papers on Telehealth and the Informatics of Medical Imaging.
Author(s): Stead, W W
DOI: 10.1136/jamia.1996.96310638
Author(s): Stead, W W
DOI: 10.1136/jamia.1996.96310638
This case report describes development and testing of a method to extract clinical information stored in the Veterans Affairs (VA) Decentralized Hospital Computer System (DHCP) for the purpose of analyzing data about groups of patients. The authors used a microcomputer-based, structured query language (SQL)-compatible, relational database system to replicate a subset of the Nashville VA Hospital's DHCP patient database. This replicated database contained the complete current Nashville DHCP prescription, provider [...]
Author(s): Graber, S E, Seneker, J A, Stahl, A A, Franklin, K O, Neel, T E, Miller, R A
DOI: 10.1136/jamia.1996.96236283
Author(s): Braithwaite, W R
DOI: 10.1136/jamia.1996.96342653
The Internet is rapidly evolving from a resource used primarily by the research community to a true global information network offering a wide range of databases and services. This evolution presents many opportunities for improved access to biomedical information, but Internet-based resources have often been difficult for the non-expert to develop and use. The World Wide Web (WWW) supports an inexpensive, easy-to-use, cross-platform, graphic interface to the Internet that may [...]
Author(s): Lowe, H J, Lomax, E C, Polonkey, S E
DOI: 10.1136/jamia.1996.96342645
Research groups within the Human Brain Project are developing technologies to help organize and make accessible the vast quantities of information being accumulated in the neurosciences. The goal of this work is to provide systems that enable this complex information from many diverse sources to be synthesized into a coherent theory of nervous system function. Our initial approach to this problem has been to create several small databases. While addressing [...]
Author(s): Peterson, B E, Healy, M D, Nadkarni, P M, Miller, P L, Shepherd, G M
DOI: 10.1136/jamia.1996.97084512
Vanderbilt University Medical Center is implementing an Integrated Advanced Information Management System (IAIMS) using a fast-track approach. The elapsed time between start-up and completion of implementation will be 7.5 years. The Start-Up and Planning phases of the project are complete. The Implementation phase asks one question: How does an organization create an environment that redirects and coordinates a variety of individual activities so that they come together to provide an [...]
Author(s): Stead, W W, Borden, R, Bourne, J, Giuse, D, Giuse, N, Harris, T R, Miller, R A, Olsen, A J
DOI: 10.1136/jamia.1996.97035022
Some observers feel that the federal government should play a more active leadership role in educating the medical community and in coordinating and encouraging a more rapid and effective implementation of clinically relevant applications of wide-area networking. Other people argue that the private sector is recognizing the importance of these issues and will, when the market demands it, adopt and enhance the telecommunications systems that are needed to produce effective [...]
Author(s): Shortliffe, E H, Bleich, H L, Caine, C G, Masys, D R, Simborg, D W
DOI: 10.1136/jamia.1996.96413132
Author(s): Friedman, C P, Dev, P
DOI: 10.1136/jamia.1996.96236286
Quality in the design and management of a medical school education program depends on the ability to access and analyze relevant information in a timely fashion. The components of medical-education information system should support learning and instruction as well as the administrative and research responsibilities of the program. A system capable of meeting these needs requires core, operational, and strategic components. This article discusses a conceptual schema of the medical [...]
Author(s): Kanter, S L
DOI: 10.1136/jamia.1996.96236278
To evaluate user satisfaction, correlates of satisfaction, and self-reported usage patterns regarding physician order entry (POE) in one hospital.
Author(s): Lee, F, Teich, J M, Spurr, C D, Bates, D W
DOI: 10.1136/jamia.1996.96342648