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CDC WONDER is an information management architecture designed for public health. It provides access to information and communications without the user's needing to know the location of data or communication pathways and mechanisms. CDC WONDER users have access to extractions from some 40 databases; electronic mail (e-mail); and surveillance data processing. System components include the Remote Client, the Communications Server, the Queue Managers, and Data Servers and Process Servers. The [...]

The American Medical Informatics Association (AMIA) has begun the process of long-range strategic plan development. The AMIA Board of Directors established an Ad Hoc Strategic Planning Task Force, with the goal of initiating such planning in November 1992. In January 1993, the Task Force convened a group of AMIA members in order to develop an initial set of goals and objectives. The group consisted of past and present AMIA Board [...]

A general framework for representation of clinical data that provides a declarative semantics of terms and that allows developers to define explicitly the relationships among both terms and combinations of terms.

Develop standard terms and codes for recording nursing care information in patient records to permit relevant data to be abstracted into a shared database for effectiveness research.

The introduction by the Health Care Financing Administration, in 1993, of separate conversion factors for "medical" and "surgical" services to be used in calculating Medicare charges would ordinarily necessitate the use of year-specific software source code. By designing the system to utilize macro-substitution of the year in the names of Current Procedural Terminology for Physicians Code databases, database fields, and system variables, it is possible to calculate Medicare charges without [...]

Assess the performance of the SAPHIRE automated information retrieval system.