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Author: Alfred Winter

Date Published: 1996

Publication Type: Journal article

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Within the daily workload at a ward there is a considerable amount of information processing. It is the task of a systematic management of hospital information systems to provide health professionals with the right information in the right place at the right time. This paper deals with the consequences for the management of hospital information systems if health professional workstations are introduced as a means for this information logistic and with the experiences gained in the Heidelberg University Hospital. Health professional workstations are formally defined in the context of a three level graph-based model of hospital information systems. It is found that health professional workstations have communication needs not only on the physical level of computer systems in the hospital information system but also on the logical tool level, which is the level of application systems. On this level communication servers or brokers are of considerable importance. In Heidelberg there are about 200 health professional workstations (MEDIAS) in routine use.

Authors: Alfred Winter, A. Lagemann, B. Budig, W. Grothe, Reinhold Haux, S. Herr, J. Pilz, R. Sawinski, P. Schmucker

Date Published: 1996

Publication Type: Journal article

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Health professionals at a ward need appropriate health professional workstations for being able to get all the information they need. It is the task of the management of a hospital information system (HIS) to provide access to the required information procedures in a uniform way. The paper gives a taxonomy of uniformity but makes clear, that uniform user interfaces are worthless, if there is no appropriate communication infrastructure at both the logical and the physical level of the corresponding HIS. Experiences in the Heidelberg University Hospital show, that pragmatic approaches can be successful.

Authors: Alfred Winter, A. Lagemann, B. Budig, W. Grothe, Reinhold Haux, S. Herr, J. Pilz, R. Sawinski, P. Schmücker

Date Published: 1996

Publication Type: InCollection

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We report on a prospective, prolective observational study, supplying information on how physicians and other health care professionals retrieve medical knowledge on-line within the Heidelberg University Hospital information system. Within this hospital information system, on-line access to medical knowledge has been realised by installing a medical knowledge server in the range of about 24 GB and by providing access to it by health care professional workstations in wards, physicians’ rooms, etc. During the study, we observed about 96 accesses per working day. The main group of health care professionals retrieving medical knowledge were physicians and medical students. Primary reasons for its utilisation were identified as support for the users’ scientific work (50%), own clinical cases (19%), general medical problems (14%) and current clinical problems (13%). Health care professionals had accesses to medical knowledge bases such as MEDLINE (79%), drug bases (’Rote Liste’, 6%), and to electronic text books and knowledge base systems as well. Sixty-five percent of accesses to medical knowledge were judged to be successful. In our opinion, medical knowledge retrieval can serve as a first step towards knowledge processing in medicine. We point out the consequences for the management of hospital information systems in order to provide the prerequisites for such a type of knowledge retrieval.

Authors: Reinhold Haux, W. Grothe, M. Runkel, H. K. Schackert, H. J. Windeler, Alfred Winter, R. Wirtz, C. Herfarth, S. Kunze

Date Published: 1996

Publication Type: Journal article

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Authors: Reinhold Haux, P. Schmücker, Alfred Winter

Date Published: 1996

Publication Type: InCollection

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Authors: A. Lagemann, Reinhold Haux, Alfred Winter

Date Published: 1996

Publication Type: Journal article

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Computer-based mobile information processing in hospitals is on the turning point of becoming a substantial and integral part of hospital information systems. Its necessity and potentials require a comprehensive systematic approach to support the needs of health care professionals and thus to contribute to high quality patient care and medical research. From the authors’ point of view, standardized digital documents could become an appropriate basis for distributed mobile information processing in hospitals. An architecture for the integrated co-operative use of conventional, stationary, and mobile information tools is a major research topic at Heidelberg university. The objective of this paper is to present a departmental prototype design to establish mobile information processing as an integral part of hospital information systems through the use of standardized digital documents

Authors: R. Werner, Reinhold Haux, F. Leiner, Alfred Winter

Date Published: 1995

Publication Type: InCollection

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