Integrated hospital information systems

After some considerations on data and their use in hospitals the concept Integrated Hospital Information System is described together with its potential advantages. Essential elements in this concept are: storage of data of various type within a central database, together with their interrelationships, conversational access to the data at the moment when and the place where users need these, data should be presented in a shape geared to the needs of the specific user, the system should check the quality of the data supplied as good as possible, the system should take care of a part of the coordinating activities in the hospital.