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To develop a representational schema for clinical data for use in exchanging data and applications, using a collaborative approach.

Interactive laserdiscs are of limited value in large group learning situations due to the expense of establishing multiple workstations. The authors implemented an alternative to laserdisc video by using indexed digital video combined with an expert system. High-quality video was captured from a laserdisc player and combined with waveform audio into an audio-video-interleave (AVI) file format in the Microsoft Video-for-Windows environment (Microsoft Corp., Seattle, WA). With the use of an [...]

To measure the attitudes of physicians and nurses who use the Health Evaluation through Logical Processing (HELP) clinical information system.

To evaluate the potential ability of computerized information systems (ISs) to identify and prevent adverse events in medical patients.

The bibliographic database MEDLINE, produced by the National Library of Medicine (NLM), is a computerized index to the world's biomedical literature. The database can be searched back to 1966 and contains 6.8 million records. The various means of access are divided, for the purposes of this article, into three categories: logging onto a remote host computer by telephone and modem or by the Internet; subscribing to part or all of [...]