Title :
Integration of intermittent clinical data with continuous data from bedside monitors
Author :
Fackler, James C. ; Kohane, Isaac S.
Author_Institution :
Dept. of Anesthesia, Children´´s Hospital, Boston, MA, USA
Abstract :
Intermittent data from hospital information systems and continuous data from beside monitors are rarely integrated. This integration is crucial to providing physicians with comprehensive views of their patients´ clinical state. It also can provide a broader clinical context for intelligent monitoring programs and thereby increase the sensitivity and specificity of their alarms. We describe an implemented application programming interface (API) that provides an abstracted query interface to the hospital´s central, relational database and to data extracted from the monitors. The API also provides several data-reduction operators to help manage the large volume of data generated. We describe an electronic flowsheet that was built using the API
Keywords :
computerised monitoring; data handling; medical administrative data processing; relational databases; user interfaces; API; abstracted query interface; beside monitors; clinical state; comprehensive views; continuous data; data-reduction operators; electronic flowsheet; hospital information systems; implemented application programming interface; intelligent monitoring programs; intermittent clinical data; physicians; relational database; Anesthesia; Computer displays; Documentation; Endocrine system; Hospitals; Laboratories; Monitoring; Pediatrics; Relational databases; Sensitivity and specificity;
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
DOI :
10.1109/CBMS.1993.263004
