Computerized medical records in cardiology: a low cost realization using a local area network

Author

Rainer, W. ; Montini, G. ; Oberlechner, W. ; Erlicher, A. ; Pitscheider, W. ; Braito, E.

Author_Institution

Gen. Hospital, Bolzano, Italy

fYear

1991

fDate

23-26 Sep 1991

Firstpage

591

Lastpage

592

Abstract

At the cardiac department of the general Hospital of Balzano (Italy) a local area network (LAN) has been installed for the computerized management of the cardiological medical records. The hardware platform is based on a LAN of personal computers (PCs) with 9 workstations. Seven of the PCs are active workstations (input and editing of data), and two of the PCs are passive workstations (visualization and printing of data). The file-server, which is based on a PC with a 80486-microprocessor at 33 MHz, is linked with the mainframe of the hospital informations system for the online acquisition of the patient data. The application software, which has been developed within the hospital, is in part dedicated to the online acquisition of data coming from various medical devices

Keywords

local area networks; medical administrative data processing; 33 MHz; 80486-microprocessor; Italy; active workstations; computerised cardiological medical records management; data editing; data input; file-server; general Hospital of Balzano; hospital information system mainframe; local area network; low cost realization; online patient data acquisition; passive workstations; personal computers; printing; visualization; Cardiology; Computer network management; Computer networks; Costs; Hardware; Health information management; Hospitals; Local area networks; Personal communication networks; Workstations;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Computers in Cardiology 1991, Proceedings.

Conference_Location

Venice

Print_ISBN

0-8186-2485-X

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/CIC.1991.168980

Filename

168980