An architecture for a health care provider's workstation.

This paper presents an architecture for a health care provider's workstation designed to assist health care providers in performing their daily activities. The design is based on the concept of a clinician's associate which acts as an intelligent intermediary between the provider and a diverse collection of clinical, administrative, and educational information sources. The architecture is designed to be hardware platform independent, to work across different I/O capabilities, and to be open, allowing specialized applications to be easily integrated with the system and their functionality delivered through a common user environment.

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