Medical Informatics Europe 84: Proceedings, Brussels, Belgium September 10–13, 1984

Front Matter....Pages N2-XXVII
Opening Address....Pages 1-3
The Impact of New Technologies on the Society and the Medicine of Tomorrow....Pages 4-8
Doing more with the Minimum Basic Data Set (MBDS)....Pages 9-18
Expert systems: towards a routine technology....Pages 19-23
The Use of Mathematical Models and Computers in Treatment Evaluation....Pages 24-29
Scylla and Charybdis of Medical Computing....Pages 30-37
User Oriented Languages....Pages 38-44
An Integrated Hospital Computer Network at the University of Leuven....Pages 45-50
Hospital Information System Development under Conditions of Limited Hardware Resources....Pages 51-55
Development of a Datamodel for a University Hospital....Pages 56-60
Trends in Costs of a Hospital Information System....Pages 61-65
Seven Year Experience with an Integrated Hospital System....Pages 66-73
Dependence of a Hospital on its HIS; Measures to Improve Availability....Pages 74-82
Hospital Information System....Pages 83-83
“Hospital Information System Integrated Laboratories”....Pages 84-90
Computerization of a Microbiology Laboratory in a University Hospital....Pages 91-95
Computerisation of Antibiotic Sensitivity Tests Carried Out by the Disk Method....Pages 96-103
A Computer Assisted Pathology System....Pages 104-109
A Computerized File for Anatomo-Pathological Data as Informative Base for a Systematic Registration of Malignant Tumours....Pages 110-114
A Poisons Information Data Base....Pages 115-119
Structured Evaluation of Packages in Medical Area....Pages 120-120
CATS - Computer Aided Toxicology Screening....Pages 121-121
NEUSYS : A System for the Retrieval of Patients’ Records....Pages 122-127
MEDIAL, a Natural Language Processing System for Medical Records....Pages 128-133
An Automated Tracking and Requesting System for Medical Records....Pages 134-139
Design of and Experience with an Automated Questionnaire for Medical History Taking....Pages 140-145
SNOMED Drug and Digestive Disease Sections: A Pilot Scheme of Improvement....Pages 146-153
Utilization of SNOMED for Routine Encoding of Pathology and Cytology Diagnoses....Pages 154-159
DosSys Medical Record Housekeeping System Burroughs B2O — microcomputers....Pages 160-160
SYLVICS Input: Abbreviated Encoding and Local Editing and Querying....Pages 161-161
Problem- and Sourceoriented Medical Records for a Pain Clinic....Pages 162-162
Protected Electronic Medical Unviolable Records....Pages 163-163
A Small Real-Time Operating System for Microcomputers....Pages 164-169
A Relational Query Language for Medical Data....Pages 170-175
Natural Language Access to the Medical Database....Pages 176-181
A Large Database, a Variety of Users, How to Control Authorization and the Presentation of Data....Pages 182-187
AIDA, Tool-Kit for the Interactive Design of Clinical Departmental Systems....Pages 188-193
Project of Self-Contained Relational Database Software: Design and Clinical Applications Outline....Pages 194-199
Teleconferencing in Support of Medicine....Pages 200-205
Communication by “Bildschirmtext (Btx)” within a Nationwide Registry of Childhood Malignancies....Pages 206-212
Changing Programming Language (PASCAL) — Goals, Means and Methods....Pages 213-222
Pseudo-Free Language Generator Program....Pages 223-229
Telematics Applied to Telemedicine and to the Italian National Public Health Service: Implementation and Developments....Pages 230-234
Micro-Shiva User Friendly Information System Development in Medical Applications....Pages 235-239
Microcomputer Based Cardiological Patient Registers....Pages 240-240
Data Management Tools on Microcomputers in Medical Information Systems....Pages 241-241
Aspects of Medical Informatics....Pages 242-242
Artefact Detection in Routine ECG Analysis....Pages 243-248
A Reliable Method for Fetal ECG Extraction from Abdominal Recordings....Pages 249-254
Computer Analysis of the Fetal Heart Rate....Pages 255-259
Feature Selection Based on the Discriminatory Power of Eigenvectors....Pages 260-265
Male Impotence: Microinformatics Help in the Data Management of Polysomnographic Penile Tumescence Recordings....Pages 266-271
Computer-Assisted Determination of PSEC-Parameters as a Diagnostic Tool for Bruxism and Myofascial Pain Dysfunction....Pages 272-277
Rate Modulation can be Studied by Spectral Analysis of the Surface Electromyogram....Pages 278-280
Data Processing and Control System for Servicing Wards for Rehabilitation through Veloergometry....Pages 281-281
A Method of Investigation of Stress on the Spine....Pages 282-282
Microinformatics Help in the Data Management of Multiple Hormonal Assessments during Sleep....Pages 283-283
Computerized Neuromonitoring: Biosignal Analysis by Microprocessors....Pages 284-289
18-Hour Continuous Intraesophageal pH-Monitoring Analysis on Computer....Pages 290-295
A Low Cost Computer Aided System for the Control of the Infusion of Vasodilator Drugs during Neurosurgical Operations....Pages 296-301
A Computerized Integration of Monitored Signals and Laboratory Data in a Coronary Care Unit....Pages 302-307
SUSI: A Comprehensive and Modular Information System for Intensive Care Units....Pages 308-313
Data Management and Real Time Respiratory Signals Processing in Anesthesia....Pages 314-319
Mechanical Ventilation in Children, a Computeraided Follow-Up Study....Pages 320-320
A Basic Program for the Study of the Ventilatory Drive on a Microcomputer....Pages 321-321
Clinical Reliability of Microcomputer Controlled I.V. Anesthesia....Pages 322-322
On Hypotheses and Diagnoses in the Medical Diagnostic Process....Pages 323-330
A Multivariate Mathematical Algorithm for Diagnostic Information Systems: I. Data Acquisition and Storage Procedures....Pages 331-336
Experiences with the Use of a Foreign System for Computer Assisted Diagnosis....Pages 337-340
Personal computer — aided laboratory diagnosis....Pages 341-346
Data Access Techniques for Diagnosis in Clinical Dermatology....Pages 347-351
The Application of Generalized Nets in Medicine (Renal Colic)....Pages 352-355
The Multivariate Individual Selection of Diagnostic Tests and the Reserved Diagnostic Statement: An Optimum Combination of Two New Methods for the Computer-Aided Differential Diagnosis....Pages 356-356
Partner’s Test — The Psychometric Method and Computer Program Estimating Incompatibility of Psychical Needs of Two Persons....Pages 357-357
A Medical Expert System Shell Based on Logic....Pages 358-363
An Expert System for Tutorial Reasoning....Pages 364-370
Knowledge acquisition in the development of an expert system for the management of perceptual disorder in stroke....Pages 371-376
Constructing an Expert System Using EMYCIN....Pages 377-380
“Diagnosis Training through Case Studies with a Two Level Expert System”....Pages 381-386
Experiences with Informatics in the Medical Curriculum....Pages 387-390
Using a HIS for Teaching Clinical Problem-Solving to Medical Students....Pages 391-395
Training for Information in Health Care....Pages 396-404
Developing an Interactive Educational System for a Training in Dynamic Electrocardiography....Pages 405-405
Clinic 3000 : A Clinical Trials Management System....Pages 406-411
Development of a Research-Oriented Cardiovascular Data Base....Pages 412-415
Clinical Research Work with Computerized, Structured Records and Advanced Computer Programs....Pages 416-421
A Data Base Supported Statistical Evaluation of Medical Treatment after Myocardial Infarction....Pages 422-426
The Computer Analysis of Therapeutic Discourse....Pages 427-433
MEDLITE: A medical literature data base employing a personal file model combined with existing DAC-system....Pages 434-438
Simple Personal Multi-Purpose Documentation at a Departmental Level: Literature, Slides, Videotapes, Museum Specimens, etc.....Pages 439-444
Computer Held Records for Tissue Typed Donors....Pages 445-445
An Interactive Inquiry System for Mortality Data....Pages 446-449
Handling and Analyzing Epidemiological Data by a Microcomputer....Pages 450-455
Hansen’s disease register in Catalonia....Pages 456-460
Validity Studies of Some Variables Used in Cancer Epidemiology....Pages 461-464
Simulation in Hospital Systems : The Intensive Care Department....Pages 465-470
Determination of Temperature Profiles Within the Human Body by Mathematical Simulation....Pages 471-476
Microcomputer in Epidemiology....Pages 477-477
Ordinateur et Vaccinations....Pages 478-478
Evaluating the Productivity of Hospitals Using US DRGS as a Case Mix Measure on a French Data Base....Pages 479-484
The D.R.G’s Going Dutch....Pages 485-491
The Quality of Medical Data in a Large Patient Data Base — Experiences with the Goettingen H. I. S. —....Pages 492-497
The Health Status Reports: An Eight-Year Experience....Pages 498-504
The Use of Mathematical Expectations to Identify Changes in the Probability of Admission to Psychiatric Care....Pages 505-510
A global system of data analysis for hospital discharge-records....Pages 511-516
Blood Donor Session Analysis and Resource Allocation....Pages 517-517
Survey of Computer Needs by Medical Practitioners in an Administrative Division of France (Cote d’Or)....Pages 518-525
The Physician’s Office System — How to Maximize Its Use....Pages 526-530
Videotex and General Practice an Experiment in Aquitania....Pages 531-533
Integrated Data Management in Ambulatory Care....Pages 534-539
Expectations and Reality of Informatics in a Nation-Wide Survey of the Quality of Outpatient Care....Pages 540-545
System Oriented Registration in General Practice....Pages 546-551
An Integrated System for the General Practitioner Choice Management....Pages 552-557
MEDOC : Medical Documents on Computer....Pages 558-564
Applications on Personal Computer in General Practice (Training) (Primary Health Care)....Pages 565-566
Structured Records on Data-Terminals, Experience from 11 Years and 2 Computers....Pages 567-572
The Development of a Comprehensive Clinical Information System for Obstetrics....Pages 573-578
Using Data Base Systems of Birth Registration to Predict, during the Pregnancy, The Risk of Stillbirth....Pages 579-582
Using a Microcomputer in a Data Collection System for a Maternity Hospital....Pages 583-588
A Data-Base System for a Children’s Renal Clinic Using a Micro-Computer....Pages 589-594
A Data Management System as an Adjunct to the Treatment of Patients with Hypertension....Pages 595-600
PNEUMDOS : An Information System for Diagnoses, Immunological and Pulmonary Function Data in Pneumology....Pages 601-606
Theoretical and practical model of a gastroenterological information system in a county area....Pages 607-612
Computerized Report of Anesthesia (C.R.A.)....Pages 613-613
Criteria for the Implementation of a Research-Finalized Clinical Casuistry on a Personal Computer....Pages 614-614
Six-Year Multicenter Study: Handling the Data from 4555 Dermatitis Patients....Pages 615-615
Harnessing Technology to Health Care — The Challenge for the Future....Pages 616-621
The Value of Information....Pages 622-627
The Finnish Approach to Developing of Health Care Information System....Pages 628-633
Development of Medical Information Systems in Hungary....Pages 634-642
Evaluation of Health Procedure in the Treatment of the Intra-Epithelial Carcinoma of the Uterus Cervix in an Administrative Division of France (Cote d’Or)....Pages 643-649
Minimum Data Set for Health Service Evaluation in a Developing Country....Pages 650-655
Present and Future Methods and Tools for the Efficient Production of Quality Software....Pages 656-662
Selection of EDP Systems in Health Affairs for “Non-Professionals”....Pages 663-670
The Impact of a Patient Management System on Patient Care Delivery: Acceptance of Hospital Staff....Pages 671-676
A Computerized System for Recording, Reporting and Researching Data for Newborn Intensive Care Units (NICU) Transferable to Most Sites....Pages 677-680
A Microcomputerized Evaluation of I.C.U. Activity by Diagnosis Grouping Methods....Pages 681-685
On Selecting Commercial (Laboratory) Information Systems....Pages 686-692
Impact of a Hospital Information System on Hospital Organization....Pages 693-698
Planning a First Phase Module for a Fully Integrated Computer Nursing System....Pages 699-704
Pilot Projects on Computer Applications in the Nursing Practice....Pages 705-710
A Four-Year Experience of Daily Involvment of Nurses in the Hospital Information System Diogene....Pages 711-715
Introducing Computer Programmes for Nursing Services....Pages 716-721
Introducing an Automated Patient Classification System for Personnel Management in Nursing....Pages 722-727
Computer-Based System for Daily Individual Menu Choice by Patients in Hospital: Development, Implementation and Application....Pages 728-735
Bringing Computer Capabilities to the Nurses in Intensive Care....Pages 736-741
Advantages and Disadvantages of Nursing Information Systems in Intensive Care....Pages 742-745
Computer-Assisted Ordering of Treatments and Monitoring in a Neonatal Intensive Care Unit....Pages 746-750
DIALAZA: A Helpful Instrument for the Renal Nurse....Pages 751-755
Computer Proliferation: An Experience to Share....Pages 756-759
Apple III - Database II and Abstat a Tool of Evaluation of Needs of Continuing Education in Hospitals....Pages 760-763
Data Processing in a WHO-Multinational Study on Nursing in Europe....Pages 764-771
DIALAZA a Helpful Instrument for the Renal Nurse....Pages 772-772
Back Matter....Pages 773-N3