Communications — future needs and present solutions

Scherrer, Jean-Raoul

doi:10.1016/0020-7101(94)01078-f

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“…The development of open standards [4] leads to an open architecture, with multivendor equipment based on industry standards for interconnection of PACS with administrative systems, such as with Radiology Information Systems (RIS) and Hospi-tal Information Systems (HIS). This is in accordance with the fact that "Sharing and communicating information is one of the important activities in health care" [5,6].…”

Section: Introductionsupporting

confidence: 84%

Functional Requirements for a HIS-RIS-PACS-Interface Design, Including Integration of “Old” Modalities

Adelhard

Nissen-Meyer²,

Pistitsch³

et al. 1999

Methods Inf Med

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Abstract:Radiology, Information Systems (RIS) and Picture Archiving Systems (PACS), have the potential for immense rationalization of operations in radiology and hence for the improvement of health care, as well as the return of investments. These systems must, however, be carefully designed such that they support routine work rather than being an additional burden to radiology staff. Analyses show that comprehensive communication of patient demographic and clinical data between RIS, PACS and Hospital Information Systems (HIS) are necessary prerequisites to achieve cost effectiveness. Based on analyses of radiology operations in a large university primary care hospital, functional requirements and data structures for designing HIS/RIS/PACS interfaces are presented. These concern communication of past examinations, associated written reports and images, appointment scheduling, requests of new examinations, digitizing old analog X-ray films, access from RIS/PACS to other clinical data, and transfer of new radiology reports and relevant images. Consistency of all redundant data stored in the three systems is essential. A pragmatic, safe and inexpensive method of electronically integrating “old” modalities not fully ”PACS capable“ in the HIS/RIS/PACS world is presented.

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confidence: 84%

Functional Requirements for a HIS-RIS-PACS-Interface Design, Including Integration of “Old” Modalities

Adelhard

Nissen-Meyer²,

Pistitsch³

et al. 1999

Methods Inf Med

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“…A workstation is the key tool on which the integration of the distributed pieces of the patient record (from various servers) can be achieved. Communication between professionals (within or between institutions) and cooperative work (groupware) become essential [18][19][20]. Simultaneous consultation of the patient record and distance interaction constitute the foundation of such cooperative work.…”

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confidence: 99%

“…-fmd similar cases to evaluate what hasbeendoneandachieved [24][25][26], -askadvicefromcolleaguesthrough telemedi~ine consultation [18][19][20], -find relevant literature and knowledge [17,[27][28][29].…”

Section: A Typology Of Functionalitiesmentioning

confidence: 99%

Multimedia Workstations: Electronic Assistants for HealthCare Professionals

Degoulet¹,

Fc²,

Safran³

1996

Yearb Med Inform

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The increasing costs of health care and the economic reality has produced an interesting paradox for the health professional to perform more clinical work with fewer support personnel. Moreover, an explosion of the knowledge-base that underlies sound clinical care not only makes effective time management critical, but also knowledge management compelling. A multimedia workstation is an electronic assistant for the busy health professional that can help with administrative tasks and give access to clinical information and knowledge networks. The multimedia nature of processed information reflects an evolution of medical technologies that involve more and more complex objects such as video sequences or digitized signals. Analysis of the 445 Medline-indexed publications for the January 1991 to December 1994 period, that included the word “workstation” either in their title or in their abstract, helps in refining objectives and challenges both for health professionals and decision makers. From an engineering perspective, development of a workstation requires the integration into the same environments of tools to localize, access, manipulate and communicate the required information. The long-term goal is to establish an easy access in a collaborative working environment that gives the end-user the feeling of a single virtual health enterprise, driven by an integrated computer system when the information system relies on a set of heterogeneous and geographically distributed components. Consequences in terms of migration from traditional client/server architectures to more client/network architectures are considered.

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“…The Unified Medical Language System (UMLS) is another approach towards a universal coding scheme for the medical record [24]. Communication and exchange of data is essential in the medical field [26]. Data exchange between computerized medical record systems and ancillary systems is based on a number of standards such as HL7 or EDI.…”

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Design Elements for a Computerized Patient Record

Adelhard

Hölzel²,

Überla³

1999

Methods Inf Med

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Computerized medical record systems have to present user-and problem-oriented views of a patient record to health-care professionals. Presentation and manipulation of data must be easily adaptable to current and future demands of medical specialties and specific settings. During the definition, development and evaluation of a prototype of a computerized patient record system, design elements were elaborated to support physicians and other health-care professionals. Our approach shows a high degree of flexibility and adaptability to specific needs, problem orientation and connectivity to other systems, via a hospital information network. The explicit description of the contents of a patient record allows to augment the number of items that can be recorded without modifying the data structure. New views on patient data can be added to the system without interfering with the routine use of the system. Application in several medical specialties proved the feasibility of our prototype.

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Communications — future needs and present solutions

Cited by 10 publications

References 21 publications

Functional Requirements for a HIS-RIS-PACS-Interface Design, Including Integration of “Old” Modalities

Functional Requirements for a HIS-RIS-PACS-Interface Design, Including Integration of “Old” Modalities

Multimedia Workstations: Electronic Assistants for HealthCare Professionals

Design Elements for a Computerized Patient Record

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