OBJECTIVE Data for clinical documentation and medical research are usually managed in separate systems. We developed, implemented and assessed a documentation system for myocardial scintigraphy (SPECT/CT-data) in order to integrate clinical and research documentation. This paper presents concept, implementation and evaluation of this single source system including methods to improve data qualit...

There is an increasing interest in changing hospital information systems (HIS) to support clinical processes in a more direct way [1,2,3,4]. This means to actively deliver the tasks to be performed to the right persons at the right point in time with the necessary information and the application functions needed. Workflow (WF) technology is a very interesting candidate to realize process-orient...

Distributing and replicating data are techniques used to improve performance and reliability of information systems. This paper presents advantages and disadvantages of distributed architectures that are important in case of hospital systems. In the paper, several issues that have to be addressed when planning a distributed architecture for the hospital information system are discussed. The par...

Despite the advantages of utilizing hospital information systems (HISs) in nursing care, and their contribution to nursing structures and care processes, the troubling issue of HIS underutilization continues. Low utilization of installed systems has been identified as a major problem in implementing information technology (IT). Unfortunately, nurses have been unwilling to apply technology to he...

Operative and perioperative information systems rarely interact with other healthcare information systems. Creating information islands in various unrelated systems, the data streams are isolated from use, limiting their utility. Ultimately, much of this information goes unnoticed, unrecorded, and unutilized. The need to optimize perioperative throughput creates a demand for integration of the ...