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Making the transition from information systems of the 1970s to medical information systems of the 1990s: The role of the Physician's Workstation

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Many hospitals today have implemented widely disparate information systems on mainframe and mini-computer hardware. The advent of network technology in hospitals has made it possible to access information in these systems. Unfortunately, the user interfaces to applications on these systems are unique and difficult to learn, which makes them unsuitable for use by clinical services. In this paper we describe the development of a Physician's Workstation which integrates information from multiple existing information systems and discuss how the workstation makes it possible to move from the departmental systems of the present to the computer-based medical record system of the future.

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  1. Russler, D.C., The exam-room physician workstation under OS/2; Proceedings of the Symposium on Computer Applications in Medical Care; 1990, 956–7.

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  1. Departments of Medicine, Pathology, and Surgery, School of Medicine, University of North Carolina, Information Services Division, UNC Hospitals, 27514, Chapel Hill, North Carolina

    J. E. Hammond, R. G. Berger, T. S. Carey, R. Rutledge, T. J. Cleveland, J. P. Kichak & C. F. Ayscue

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Hammond, J.E., Berger, R.G., Carey, T.S. et al. Making the transition from information systems of the 1970s to medical information systems of the 1990s: The role of the Physician's Workstation. J Med Syst 15, 257–267 (1991). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00996555

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