clinical information system


A clinical information system (CIS) is an information system designed specifically for use in the critical care environment, such as in an Intensive Care Unit (ICU). It can network with the many computer systems in a modern hospital, such as pathology and radiology.

Development and representation of a fall-injury risk assessment instrument in a clinical information system .
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The potential for informatics solutions to address inpatient safety issues is significant; however, several challenges are associated with the development of patient safety related informatics applications. These challenges include: 1) the identification and/or development

Experience with an XML/HTTP-based federative approach to develop a hospital-wide clinical information system
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The authors present a two-year experience with an approach aimed at federating applications into a component-based hospital-wide clinical information system . Recognizing the need for better integration, clearer separation of knowledge from applications, as well as

The clinical information system implementation evaluation scale
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Measurement instruments to assess user satisfaction with Clinical Information Systems (CIS) and with the implementation of CIS are needed as part of multifaceted evaluation of CIS. Seven years of experience in developing measurement instruments to assess staff The Johns Hopkins Oncology Center is one of 21 Comprehensive Cancer Centers established as part of the National Cancer Plan initiated by the Cancer Act of 1971. The center has majorprogramsinlaboratory and clinical research, education, and collaborative ac- tivities with community physicians. Care

Doctors attitudes to a computer-based clinical information system
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The results of a survey by questionary concerning user attitudes and views on the use of a computer-based clinical information system are reported. The 13 users, 8 house officers and 5 senior house officers, found the system helpful, felt that patient care was improved and that

The importance of leadership in the clinical information system implementation process
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Healthcare organizations are searching for ways to improve the quality of care they deliver while simultaneously attempting to reduce costs and improve levels of service. Such efforts require important changes in the way healthcare organizations function. Following

An on-line clinical information system in family practice
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An interactive on-line clinical information system is in operation within the residency program of the Department of Family Practice at the Medical University of South Carolina in Charleston. This approach eliminates some of the traditional sources of error in collecting

Impact of a critical care clinical information system on interruption rates during intensive care nurse and physician documentation tasks.
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Computerized documentation methods in Intensive Care Units (ICUs) assist Health Care Providers (HCP) with their documentation workload, but evaluating impacts remains problematic. A Critical Care clinical Information System (CCIS) is an electronic charting tool

Critical success factors for the introduction of a clinical information system
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There exist some certain factors considered as critical that determines the success, failure or delay of the completion of IT projects. This paper discusses some of the critical success factors that we re identified during the Introduction of a Clinical Information System to a

Determinants of continuance intention in a post-adoption satisfaction evaluation of a clinical information system .
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Purpose: The evaluation of end-user satisfaction is an essential part of any clinical information system (CIS) project. The purpose of this study is to evaluate the determinants of CIS continuance intention in a late post-adoption phase at the Georges Pompidou University

A clinical information system research agenda for Kaiser Permanente
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A Critical Essay on the Deployment of an ED Clinical Information System -Systemic Failure or Bad Luck
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BACKGROUND The health service of NSW comprises 220+ hospitals, 100,000+ staff, and has a $15.1 billion budget to serve a population of approximately 7 million people. NSWHealth (the New South Wales governments Department of Health) appears to have

Building an ambulatory clinical information system in a family practice residency
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A programmable database be implemented on a personal computer to man age the educational and clinical information needs of a family practice residency. Such a system can usefully and efficiently be based on the existing clinical en counter form. Data entry for a

UIMA-based clinical information extraction system
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This paper describes the Mayo Clinic information extraction system for the clinical domain which was developed using IBMs Unstructured Information Management Architecture. The system is being used to process and extract information from free-text clinical notes (> 25M

Introduction of a Clinical Information System in a Regional General State Hospital of Athens, Greece
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The introduction of a Clinical Information System (CIS) in a healthcare organisation is a particularly complex process, requiring thorough design and the close co-operation of many key-position people within the organisation. Moreover the whole process is extremely time

Automated identification of shortcuts to patient data for a wireless handheld clinical information system
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Inadequate access to patient information at the point of care has been identified as an impediment to the health care process1. To create clinical computing tools that are useful to and used by clinicians, developers of clinical information systems must have accurate

The Role of Modeling in Clinical Information System Development Life Cycle
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A model is an abstraction of some thing (eg, object, system , process, phenomenon) in our world that we create in order to understand it better. Models can be physical (eg, an architectural model of a building, a prototype of a user interface), mathematical (eg, a model The empirical data is used in organizations all over the world which require the integration of some informational systems like Electronic Medical Record (EMR) and Clinical Information System (CIS); these concepts will discover with new form of Bangladeshi public hospitals

Short-Term Impact Analysis of a Clinical Information System Adoption on Relieving Menstrual Distress in Women
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The purpose of this study is to examine the short-term impact analysis of a clinical information system adoption on relieving menstrual distress in women. Data were collected from 130 women who took health examination in Y health promotion center from 13 to