CHORT: an original system for cardiological database hospital reports

Author

Dee, D. ; Derwael, C. ; Matton, JL ; Vanbutsele, R. ; Brohet, C. ; Kock, M. De

Author_Institution

Med. Sch., Katholieke Univ., Leuven, Belgium

fYear

1994

fDate

25-28 Sept. 1994

Firstpage

525

Lastpage

528

Abstract

Data collection and management is a tedious and time consuming activity. With CHORT (Cardiac HOspital ReporT), the authors have designed a new approach to integrating all data related to a specific patient. CHORT allows interactive data input or data acquisition from external systems. CHORT is able to access other local databases. CHORT can initiate REGAL, a report generator, at any time during a patient´s hospital stay. All information is converted into fluent French text before being integrated into the report and merged with free text. REGAL is an interpreted language permitting flexibility in data selection and control over data display and page lay-out. CHORT improves and speeds up medical file access, suppresses typed report output, and provides a database for clinical and scientific purposes.<>

Keywords

cardiology; data acquisition; database management systems; medical administrative data processing; medical computing; CHORT; Cardiac HOspital ReporT; REGAL; cardiological database hospital reports system; clinical database; data display; fluent French text; free text; individual patient data integration; medical file access speed up; page lay-out; typed report output suppression; Cardiology; Computer networks; Data acquisition; Databases; Delay; Hospitals; Microcomputers; Natural languages; Printers; Testing;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Computers in Cardiology 1994

Conference_Location

Bethesda, MD, USA

Print_ISBN

0-8186-6570-X

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/CIC.1994.470139

Filename

470139