RT Book, Section
A1 Hanson III, C. William
SR Print(0)
ID 1211554280
T1 Hospital Information Systems
T2 Healthcare Informatics
YR 2024
FD 2024
PB McGraw Hill
PP New York, NY
SN 9780071440660
LK apn.mhmedical.com/content.aspx?aid=1211554280
RD 2025/03/22
AB Key  PointsHospital  information  systems  (HISs)  started  as  business,  financially  oriented  systems  rather  than  patient-care-oriented,  clinical  systems.While  the  potential  promise  of  artificial  intelligence  was  clear  from  the  outset,  despite  some  successful  demonstration  projects,  they  never  took  hold  in  patient  care.The  fundamental  principles  for  the  design  of  good  medical  computer  systems  have  changed  since  they  were  first  described  in  the  1960s.Early  medical  systems  were  deployed  on  “mainframe”  computers  and  interfaced  to  the  user  through  “dumb”  terminals.As  clinical  subsystems  (i.e.,  radiology)  were  developed  and  matured,  many  hospitals  took  a  “best-in-breed”  approach  and  married  disparate  systems  to  one  another  through  a  central  hub.The  alternative  approach  is  to  go  to  a  core  vendor  who  supplies  most  of  the  needed  services.