In response to Tony's pondering we are doing soemthing that is related. Although let me say this is a research project where we are trying to push the boundaries rather thatn satisfy a specification. It may not be everyone's cup-of-tea. We call the project Generative Hospital Information Systems and it has that name because we consider it is system to generate special purpose information systems. Some of its philosophical features are; 1. The users define the the nature of the data they want to collect ( with the help of a generic data dictionary) 2. The users define the screen layouts and formats for collecting that data. 3. The patient's information is a story stored in a document repository rather than a record repository, hence reteival is of a form previously populated by someone else. 4. The fundamental objective of the system is to support analytics, everything else comes as an adjunct to that objective. This is justified on the basis that clinicians purposive use of an IS is to get it to answer questions as distinct from just retreiving patient hi-stories.
Our first attempt will be to replicate the processes in the ED at a western sydney hospital. We spent 3months there last summer doing a process analysis which we now have on a piece of paper covering the better part of a small wall. If we hit the spot we will have something that at least performs up to the current EDIS but can do better with functionality for clinicians, greater flexibilty to re-engineer and potentially much superior analytics. We won't have analytics functioning for the first release. Code is written in Python and C# (some compromises made). Linux server - windows client. jon patrick USyd ---------------------------------------------------------------- This message was sent using IMP, the Internet Messaging Program. _______________________________________________ Gpcg_talk mailing list [email protected] http://ozdocit.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/gpcg_talk
