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Medical information networking and standardization.

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  • 1Hewlett-Packard Company, Andover, MA 01810-1085.

International Journal of Clinical Monitoring and Computing
|January 1, 1987
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Hospitals face challenges integrating diverse computer systems. Developing hospital-specific networking standards is proposed to enable seamless data exchange and advance the computerized medical record.

Area of Science:

  • Health Informatics
  • Computer Science
  • Information Management

Background:

  • Hospitals generate vast amounts of data, necessitating extensive computer use.
  • Current computer system applications in hospitals are often opportunistic, not strategic, leading to fragmented information processing.
  • Hospitals utilize multiple systems (financial, order-entry, ADT, clinical) that struggle with primitive inter-system communication.

Purpose of the Study:

  • To address the challenges of integrating heterogeneous hospital information systems.
  • To propose a strategic approach for improving hospital-wide data management and computing power.
  • To facilitate the development of a comprehensive computerized medical record.

Main Methods:

  • Analysis of the current fragmented, multi-vendor hospital information processing environment.

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  • Identification of difficulties in linking disparate automated systems, particularly in large teaching hospitals.
  • Proposal of developing standardized networking protocols for hospitals, analogous to those in manufacturing and technical office environments.

    • Main Results:

    • The current hospital computing environment is characterized by "islands of automation" with limited communication.
    • Efforts to manually link systems are resource-intensive and complicated by environmental heterogeneity.
    • A single-vendor solution is unlikely to meet all hospital information processing needs.

    Conclusions:

    • A heterogeneous computing environment in hospitals is inevitable.
    • Developing specific networking standards for hospitals is a viable strategy for system integration.
    • Standardized networking will enable easier integration of vendor systems, enhancing hospital-wide data management and supporting initiatives like the computerized medical record.