Hospital Information Systems: Design and Development Characteristics, Impact and Future Architecture

Preface. Hospital Information Systems: A Pragmatic Definition (H.U. Prokosch). Introducing the Papers. About the Authors Fundamentals for the HIS Development. Medical Application Development and the HELIOS Software Engineering Environment (P. Degoulet et al.). Communication Standards in Healthcare (J. Dudeck). Network Communication and Management in a HIS-Environment (G. Junghans). Medical Data Dictionaries and their Use in Medical Information System Development (S.M. Huff, J.J. Cimino). HIS Applications. Experience with an HIS Subsystem in Intensive Care (H. Schillings). Concepts for the Design of a Clinical Workstation (K. Adelhard, D. Holzel, W. Tretter). GTDS - An Oncology Workstation (U. Altmann et al.). Design Issues for Nursing Information Systems (K.J. Hannah, M.J.A. Edwards). Nursing Information Systems in Germany and Europe (E. Opitzet al.). Information and Knowledge Processing within HIS. Online Searching of Clinical Data: Promises and Pitfalls (C. Safran). Bringing Medical Knowledge to the Physician's and to the Nurse's Desktops by Health Care Professional Workstations (R. Haux et al.). Evaluating the Impact of Computer-based Drug Monitoring on the Quality and Cost of Drug Therapy (R.S. Evans, S.L. Pestotnik, R.M. Gardner). The Effect of Computer Reminders on the Quality of Care and Resource Use (H.U. Prokosch, C.J. McDonald). Transferring Medical Knowledge Bases between Different HIS Environments (G. Hripczak, T.A. Pryor, O.B. Wigertz). Towards New HIS Architectures. Migration Steps from a Mainframe Based HIS Approach to an Open HIS Environment (A. Michel). Integrated Advanced Information Management Systems (IAIMS): Accomplishments from a Global and Local Perspective (P.D. Clayton et al.). Integrated Advanced Information Management Systems: Strategies and Architectures for Fast Track Development (W.W. Stead, D.F. Sittig). Electronic Data Processing in University Hospitals: Extending the View on Medical Student Education Programs (M.M. Batschkus, H.U. Prokosch, R. Wagner). Moving Towards the Future Design of HIS: A View from the Seventies to the End of the Nineties, the DIOGENE Paradign (J.R. Scherrer, R. Baud, D. de Roulet). Author Index. Subject Index.