Clinical Data Management

The primary objective of the OCIS, as described in Chapters 1 and 2, is to manage patient data and to present clinical information in a manner that facilitates medical decision making. This means that the OCIS must be able to produce reports in a variety of formats for each category of clinical data. To accomplish this, the OCIS also requires tools to define the desired formats, to produce the outputs at the appropriate times, and to collect the data in a timely and accurate fashion.