A Practical Approach to Process Support in Health Information Systems | Zendy

Richard Lenz | Zendy

AI Assistant Blog Pricing

Home ZAIA Blog

Open Access

A Practical Approach to Process Support in Health Information Systems

Author(s) -

Richard Lenz

Publication year - 2002

Publication title -

journal of the american medical informatics association

Language(s) - English

Resource type - Journals

SCImago Journal Rank - 1.614

H-Index - 150

eISSN - 1527-974X

pISSN - 1067-5027

DOI - 10.1197/jamia.m1016

Subject(s) - computer science , workflow , schema (genetic algorithms) , generator (circuit theory) , information flow , data flow diagram , process (computing) , information system , database , data mining , software engineering , information retrieval , programming language , power (physics) , linguistics , physics , philosophy , quantum mechanics , electrical engineering , engineering

This article describes the design of a generator tool for rapid application development. The generator tool is an integral part of a healthcare information system, and newly developed applications are embedded into the healthcare information system from the very beginning. The tool-generated applications are based on a document oriented user interaction paradigm. A significant feature is the support of intra- and interdepartmental clinical processes by means of providing document flow between different user groups. For flexible storage of newly developed applications, a generic EAV-type (Entity-Attribute-Value) database schema is used. Important aspects of a consequent implementation, like database representation of structured documents, document flow, versioning, and synchronization are presented. Applications generated by this approach are in routine use in more than 200 hospitals in Germany.

The content you want is available to Zendy users.

Already have an account? Click here to sign in.

Having issues? You can contact us here

Accelerating Research