The MEDAS local area network

Author

Chao, Shih-Chieh ; Juang, M. ; Evens, M. ; Carmony, L. ; Roberts, Richard ; McDermott, Maxwell

Author_Institution

Dept. of Comput. Sci., Illinois Inst. of Technol., Chicago, IL

fYear

1993

fDate

13-16 Jun 1993

Firstpage

295

Lastpage

300

Abstract

The authors describe a local area network being used in the Adult Emergency Department at cook County hospital in Chicago. Two modules of MEDAS, the LOG program and the electronic patient tracking board program, are running on this LAN. The network itself is composed of PCs, Macintoshes, Novell Netware, and an Oracle Server and is designed to be fault tolerant. The system handles about 250 visits per day well and more than 100000 patients have been logged in by the system. MEDAS (the Medical Emergency Decision Assistance System) is a medical expert

Keywords

local area networks; medical administrative data processing; medical expert systems; LOG program; MEDAS local area network; Macintoshes; Medical Emergency Decision Assistance System; Novell Netware; Oracle Server; PCs; electronic patient tracking board program; fault tolerant; medical expert; patients; Chaos; Dictionaries; Hospitals; Local area networks; Medical diagnostic imaging; Medical treatment; Protocols; Runtime; Space technology; Testing;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Computer-Based Medical Systems, 1993. Proceedings of Sixth Annual IEEE Symposium on

Conference_Location

Ann Arbor, MI

Print_ISBN

0-8186-3752-8

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/CBMS.1993.263003

Filename

263003