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THE DEVELOPMENT OF A HOSPITAL DATA BASE
Author(s) -
Race D.
Publication year - 1972
Publication title -
medical journal of australia
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.904
H-Index - 131
eISSN - 1326-5377
pISSN - 0025-729X
DOI - 10.5694/j.1326-5377.1972.tb106503.x
Subject(s) - medical record , data retrieval , computer science , data collection , protocol (science) , computer data storage , data science , information retrieval , medical emergency , medicine , alternative medicine , statistics , mathematics , pathology , operating system , radiology
Hospital computer applications can be subdivided into three groups: (i) computation, for which there is only a small need in the patient care areas; (ii) conventional commercial data processing, which finds a ready use in the administrative areas: and (iii) data storage and retrieval realized primarily for the analysis of large‐volume survey data but of great potential in the maintenance of medical records with data arising both from within the hospital in particular, and from the community in general. The collection of medical data is discussed and the pertinent literature reviewed in order to arrive at a practical, economic and useful protocol for the creation, storage and retrieval of the medical record.