Title :
A Windows user interface to data retrieval and report generation for a diabetic patient database
Author :
Kao, Chi-Hwa ; Evens, Martha ; Trace, David A. ; Singh, Sant ; Yaturu, Subha
Author_Institution :
Dept. of Comput. Sci., Illinois Inst. of Technol., Chicago, IL, USA
Abstract :
This system is designed to support clinic operations using an MS Windows graphical user interface to provide a menu-driven and interactive operation requiring only mouse clicks to replace the traditional character-based environment for physicians to query from the database and to generate reports. The object-oriented design methodology has made it easy to implement the system and adapt it to changing user needs
Keywords :
SQL; graphical user interfaces; interactive systems; medical administrative data processing; medical computing; object-oriented databases; MS Windows graphical user interface; clinic operations; data retrieval; diabetic patient database; menu-driven interactive operation; mouse clicks; object-oriented design methodology; physicians; report generation; user needs; Character generation; Database languages; Diabetes; Drugs; Graphical user interfaces; Information retrieval; Medical diagnostic imaging; Object oriented databases; Object oriented programming; User interfaces;
Conference_Titel :
Computer-Based Medical Systems, 1994., Proceedings 1994 IEEE Seventh Symposium on
Conference_Location :
Winston-Salem, NC
Print_ISBN :
0-8186-6256-5
DOI :
10.1109/CBMS.1994.315995