A Microcomputer-Network Based Decision Support System for Health-Care Organizations

Abstract Hospital systems are, according to our opinion, special types of the control systems. Proper functioning of the control systems depends on the quality of data. So is it in the case of the hospital systems, too. In order to obtain a valuable information system, the data should be recorded at their very source. Basic ideas of a simple hospital "control" system are presented in this paper. For its realization, a local network of microcomputers can be applied. As for data handling and transfer a general data acquisition and manaqement software is reported. Preliminary results obtained for small systems are referenced.