Medical Informatics Europe 85: Proceedings, Helsinki, Finland August 25–29, 1985

Front Matter....Pages N2-XXVII
Medical Information Management is a Return to Natural Language Possible?....Pages 1-5
The Individual Portable Medical File on Memory Card (The smart card); Access to Networks....Pages 6-10
Integration by Distribution — A Contradiction or an Evolutionary Methodology to Develop Multi-Functional Health Information Systems?....Pages 11-15
Patients Flow Through a University Hospital....Pages 16-21
Design and Prototyping of Components of a Hospital Information System....Pages 22-26
An ICU Computer System Coupled with a HIS....Pages 27-31
Imagis: A Relation Between PACS and HIS....Pages 32-38
Application of PC’s in Combination with an Integrated HIS....Pages 39-43
An Approach to the Development of a Complex Information System for the Wrocław Province Hospital....Pages 44-48
Distributed Applications in the Hospital Information System....Pages 49-53
Users’ Role in Development and Implementation of a Patient Information System within Helsinki University Central Hospital....Pages 54-58
Five Years of Total His Cost Accounting, Analysis and Prognosis....Pages 59-64
Planning, Implementing and Installing a Mutual Patient Administration System for the Medical Schools in Bavaria....Pages 65-69
A Microcomputer System for Emergency Units....Pages 70-74
Experiences with Word Processing Integrated in a Hospital Information System....Pages 75-79
Organization and Information Tools of a Mental Health Department Information System....Pages 80-84
An Approach to the Microcomputer-Network System in the Hungarian National Institute of Cardiology....Pages 85-89
Comparison of Data Gathered with Help of an Automated Questionnaire and Medical History Data Out of the Medical Record....Pages 90-94
A Minicomputer Based Clinical Physiological Laboratory System for the Off-Line Computation and Documentation of the Studies....Pages 95-97
X-Ray Data Processing as a Part of a Patient Information System....Pages 98-100
Clinical Information System for Urgent Surgery and Traumatology....Pages 101-106
A Pharmacy Management System by an Online Computer System Designed to Facilitate Dispensing Functions, Clinical and Pharmacy Management....Pages 107-112
A Microcomputer Simulated Interactive Clinical Problem....Pages 113-117
Probabilistic Prognostic Decision Making: A Clinical Example....Pages 118-122
A Flexible Rule Based System for the Interpretation of Thyroid Function Tests....Pages 123-126
HELP: A Medical Information System with Decision Making Capability....Pages 127-131
Medical Decision Making via Simultaneous Confidence Intervals Based on Selection Procedures....Pages 132-137
An Expert Consultation System to Aid Clinical Diagnoses....Pages 138-142
The Use of Censors and Reasoning by Analogy to Aid in the Diagnosis of Thyroid Diseases....Pages 143-147
The physician’s needs versus the system features in the design of an effective Knowledge Based System....Pages 148-152
An Expert System for Statistical Applications in Medical Research....Pages 153-157
Idea — Integrating Expert Systems with Applications....Pages 158-162
Two Flows of Approximativeness in Diagnostic Expert Systems....Pages 163-167
A Traditional Chinese Medical Expert System Based On Computer —Gudes....Pages 168-174
Man-Machine Communication in Natural Language For An Expert System In Medical Consultation....Pages 175-180
An Expert System in Neuropsychiatry....Pages 181-185
Early Diagnosis Program of Breast Cancer....Pages 186-189
A General Archive Management and Lending System in a Hospital Information System Environment....Pages 190-195
The AGK-Thesaurus — Fiction or Reality?....Pages 196-200
Construction of a (semi-)automated SNOMED — ICD code linkage....Pages 201-205
Coral: An A.I. Approach of “Problem Oriented Medical Record”....Pages 206-210
Contributions to Automated Indexing Based on SNOMED....Pages 211-215
An Approach to the Free Text Syntactic Analysis....Pages 216-219
Investigations Concerning the Use of Diagnose Coding Systems in Large Hospitals in the F.R.G.....Pages 220-224
Basic Data Set and Local Classifications....Pages 225-229
Advantages of an Information System Approach Connected with a Thesaurus for the Progressive, Global and Coherent Microcomputerization of a Clinical Department....Pages 230-234
DML/3000: A relational database retrieval language providing simultaneous access to a large number of clinical databases, full computational facilities and built-in interfaces with different statistical packages....Pages 235-239
Rules for the Design of End User Languages....Pages 240-245
Use of U.S. Veterans Administration Software in Finnish Health Care....Pages 246-250
A Methodology to Integrate in a Data Base: Data-Items, Text, Graphics and Images....Pages 251-256
Application of Videotex Systems to Medicine....Pages 257-261
“Bildschirmtext” — The German Videotex System, its use in Health Care. Functions and Applications....Pages 262-268
Report of a Pilot Study to Examine the use of Interactive Videodisc Cardiopulmonary Resuscitation Instruction....Pages 269-274
Telemedicine: New Applications and Developments....Pages 275-279
Canada’s New Management Information System Guidelines....Pages 280-287
The Information System of Lazio Region for the Death Cause Declaration....Pages 288-292
Tertika-Database as A Planning Instrument for Municipal Health Authorities....Pages 293-297
Development of a Data Model of the Norwegian Health Care System....Pages 298-303
Actual Utilization of the Computerized National Danish Death Register....Pages 304-308
The System of Medical Statistics in the GDR and Targets up to 1990....Pages 309-313
Management Evaluation of the Hospital Information System at the Leuven University Hospitals (Belgium)....Pages 314-318
The Canadian Workload Measurement System- A National Hospital Productivity Improvement Program....Pages 319-325
Using Drgs to Separate Case Mix in the UK From Trends in Length of Stay....Pages 326-331
Confidentiality Problems in the Federal Republic of Germany....Pages 332-337
Guidelines for Privacy Protection in Dutch Health Care....Pages 338-342
Considerations on the Effectiveness of Protection by Passwords....Pages 343-348
A Hand-Held System Usable by Rural Health Workers for Medical Decision-Making....Pages 349-353
Nucleotide Sequence Analysis System on Minicomputer....Pages 354-359
Registration of Total HIP Reoperations on Hospital and Country Level by Aid of Routine Surgery Statistics....Pages 360-362
Diagnostic Classification of Muscle Biopsies by a Micro Computer....Pages 363-367
Comparative Research, Prevention and Audit in General Practice using the System Criented Registration Method....Pages 368-372
Computerising Family Practitioner Services....Pages 373-379
An Outpatient System Especially Developed for Finnish Student Health Service’s Data Processing....Pages 380-384
Micro Computer Application in a Medical Social Work Department....Pages 385-388
Computerisation of the Medical Administration in a Group Practice of Occupational Health Service (GOHS)....Pages 389-393
Development of a System of Communication to Collect Medical Data at a Regional Level....Pages 394-398
Measurement of Productivity in Primary Care....Pages 399-403
Interactive Patient Record....Pages 404-409
Free Text Retrieval of Medical Information....Pages 410-414
Integrated Bureautics and Medical Care Units....Pages 415-419
Computer-Aided Prescription for General Practitioners Using A Hand-Held Computer....Pages 420-424
Hand Held Computers in Medicine....Pages 425-429
A Patient Directed Information and Management System For Neurologists....Pages 430-433
Evaluating the Schizophrenia Project....Pages 434-438
Towards a Mathematical Model of Neurological Diseases Affecting the Extrapyramidal Motor System....Pages 439-443
Optimal Sequential Strategies to Evaluate Presence and Severity of Coronary Artery Disease: an Information Theory Approach....Pages 444-448
Comparison of Evaluation Criteria for Nonparametric Discriminant Analysis....Pages 449-453
Three-dimensional simulation of tumor growth and treatment....Pages 454-458
Acquisition And Evaluation Of Data For Behavioral Analysis....Pages 459-463
Differentiated Evaluation Of the Regulation at Various Integration Levels of the Human Organism by Computerized System Analysis....Pages 464-468
The Identification of a New Rheumatoid Disease Group by Means of Multivariate Statistical Analysis....Pages 469-473
A Clinical Database for the Study op Prognostic Factors in Breast Cancer....Pages 474-478
Simulation of cell Kinetics in the intestinal tract....Pages 479-483
Real-Time Mathematical Modelling of Plasma Levels of i.v. Administered Drugs....Pages 484-486
Systematic Development of a Hospital Information System with Distributed Data- and Methodbase Systems: The Aachmed Project....Pages 487-491
Record Linkage in Cancer Registration....Pages 492-497
From Hospital-Based to Population-Based Tumor Registration: Priorities for an Evolutionary Development....Pages 498-502
RTO — A Management System for a Computerized Cancer Registry....Pages 503-508
A Health Database as a Tool for Relating Medical and Environmental-Health Data....Pages 509-513
Performance Improvements of Relational Database Software Reconsidered For Medical Applications....Pages 514-518
Distribution Technique and Performance of Relational Databases in Decentralized Health Care Environments....Pages 519-522
Medical Record of Oncology Patients....Pages 523-525
The British Child Health Computer System....Pages 526-531
Microcomputer in the Home Control of Diabetes in a Child....Pages 532-535
Congenital Malformations — Information System and its Use....Pages 536-542
Use of Register of Low-Birth-Weight Infants for the Evaluation of Adiposity Indices....Pages 543-547
Quality Control of the Obstetric Care with the Aid of Special Purpose Computers for Fetal Heart Rate Monitoring and Perinatal Data Base....Pages 548-552
The Comparative Investigation of the Causality Related to the Prematurity in the New-Born Population....Pages 553-557
Evaluation of a Child Development Paediatric Examination System....Pages 558-561
A Computer Based System for Optimal Blood Inventory Control....Pages 562-566
Multilab — A Fourth Generation Laboratory Information System....Pages 567-571
“Mathematical Chromatography” — Resolution of Overlapping Spectra in GC-MS....Pages 572-578
Computerized Interpretation of H P L C Chromatogramms by Means of Absorbance Ratio Method and Derivative Spectroscopy....Pages 579-583
Patient Administration and on Line Radioimmunoassay Data Reduction Using a Microcomputer....Pages 584-588
Fourth Generation Laboratory System....Pages 589-594
OUPA — Pathology Data Management System of Oulu University Central Hospital....Pages 595-599
Some Medical Informatics for Medical Students?....Pages 600-604
Computing in Dialysis Units: How to Engage and Train All Medical Staff when Introducing Computing in Patient Care?....Pages 605-611
Integrating Statistics in Medical Informatics: A Lecture on Statistical Analysis Systems....Pages 612-617
A Postgraduate Medical Education Database....Pages 618-623
An Examination and Education System for Clinical Disciplines of Medicine....Pages 624-628
Education and Training of Medical Students in Statistics and Medical Computing....Pages 629-633
Use of Computers in Continuing Education....Pages 634-637
Hematologic Ideographic Alphabet and its Utilization for Personal Computer Program Supporting the Interpretation of Blood and Bone Marrow Microscopic Images....Pages 638-642
Long-Term Planning Model for Medical Manpower Training in the USSR....Pages 643-647
The In-Vivo Measurement of Extravascular Lung Water Using a Micro-Computer-Based System....Pages 648-649
A System to Control Breath by Breath the CO 2 and O 2 Fractions in End-Expiratory Gas....Pages 650-657
A Commercialized Program on Apple-Computer for a 24H Continuous Intraesophageal pH-Monitoring....Pages 658-662
Reduction of Ringing in Ultrasonic Echography by Image Deconvolution....Pages 663-666
Computer Ways of Explicitation of the Compressed ECG Data....Pages 667-671
A Computer-aided Physiological Teaching Software of Circulating System....Pages 672-674
The Monitoring of Heart Rate Variability in the Assessment of Diabetic Autonomic Neuropathy....Pages 675-679
A Monitor for quality control in the routine of a department for obstetrics and gynecology....Pages 680-685
Computer Analysis of the Anaesthetic On-Call System in a Maternity Hospital....Pages 686-691
A Computer Based Quality Assurance System for Assessment of Ultrasound Measurements....Pages 692-697
Attitudes to a Computer-Based Information System and the Decline of Paperwork....Pages 698-703
Training Nurses to Use Computer Systems....Pages 704-709
The Development of a Technological Supported Nursing Communication System....Pages 710-714
Computers and Nurse Education....Pages 715-720
Computer Development and the Nurse as the Adult Learner....Pages 721-726
Experience in Using a Computed-Aided Learning Package in a School of Nursing....Pages 727-731
The Rationalization of Educational Software Resources in the U K....Pages 732-735
Will Computer Technology Lead to More and Better Nursing? May Nurses Direct this Development?....Pages 736-742
Computerized Nursing Care Plans....Pages 743-749
Continuity of Nursing Care in Primary Care in Finland....Pages 750-752
The Therapeutic Intervention Scoring System ( T I S S ) Computerized in a Coronary Care Unit....Pages 753-757
Utilization of a Computerized Real-Time Datasystem in Children’s Clinic of Helsinki University Central Hospital....Pages 758-763
Decision Support in Clinical Medicine....Pages 764-774
A CP/M Based Microcomputer for Off-Line Processing of Nuclear Medicine Images and Time/Activity Curves....Pages 775-775
Information System of the Clinical Chemistry and Hematology Laboratories in the University Central Hospital of Turku....Pages 776-776
EEG Sleep Pattern Recognition by Cluster Analysis....Pages 777-777
The Microcomputer Aided Archivisation of Diagnostical — Therapeutic Procedures in the Cases of Erosion of Uterus Cervix — Cyto-Info System....Pages 778-778
A Computerization Proposal of the Registration of Routine Ultrasonocephalometric Examination of the Fetus....Pages 779-779
Protocols Design in Medical Orientated Local Area Networks....Pages 780-781
Seventeen Year Experience of a Computerized Microbiology Laboratory Information System....Pages 782-782
A Computerized Long-Term Follow-Up of Antibiotic Sensitivity Pattern for a Hospital Region....Pages 783-783
Registration of Hospital Infections....Pages 784-784
Planning of a Surgery Department on the Basis of Surgery and Anesthesy Statistics....Pages 785-785
Statistical Data Processing by Microcomputer....Pages 786-786
A Microcomputer-Based Clinical Laboratory Subsystem....Pages 787-787
Meducation, a Teaching Program to Recognize Symptoms and Signs Employing a General Medical Data Base....Pages 788-788
Theresa: A Computerized Medical Information System....Pages 789-789
Nosocomial Infections in Newborn Intensive Care Units....Pages 790-790
Descriptor — a Software Tool for Construction of Flexible Data Base....Pages 791-791
pDMS a Data Management System in Health Care Application....Pages 792-792
Automation of the Individual Menuchoice by Patients in Hospital in Relation to Minimizing Production Cost....Pages 793-793
A Drug-Requisition and Drug-Information System Using an IBM-Personal Computer-XT....Pages 794-794
Multi-level quality control procedures in a clinical database management system (CLINIC/3000)....Pages 795-795
DEL/3000 : Local and remote data entry language for a clinical database management system (CLINIC/3000)....Pages 796-796
GAIA — G astroenterological A rtificial I ntelligence A pplication....Pages 797-797
Computer Based Information System on Protective Gloves and Barrier Creams for Occupational Use....Pages 798-798
An Interactive System for the Surveillance of Infectous Diseases in Italy....Pages 799-799
Advanced BASIC Programming Software Package for Teaching....Pages 800-800
The Use of Information Systems in Dutch General Hospitals....Pages 801-801
Classes of Utilization of Data Base Management Systems in a Hospital Information System....Pages 802-802
M-Stef I A Microcomputer Network-Based Clinical Support System....Pages 803-803
The Adaptation of the Advanced Hospital Information System Help into the Environment of a German University Hospital....Pages 804-804
An Information System for Communicable Disease Surveillance....Pages 805-805
Quality Control in Clinical Physiology Laboratory....Pages 806-806
Evaluation of the Predictive Value of Neurological Clinical Symptoms Amongst Low-Birth-Weight Infants from 3 to 18 Months Old....Pages 807-807
Automatically Coded Medical Data Forms....Pages 808-808
Scientific-Information Securing, Planning and Taking of a Decision in Human Memory Modelling....Pages 809-809
ECG Data Management and Analysis in the Monica Survey Augsburg (Who Project)....Pages 810-810
Monitoring for the Health of Individuals Working in Industry and its Relationship to Their Environment....Pages 811-811
A Kalman Filter Technique, Generalized from Renal Transplantation to Other Clinical Problems....Pages 812-812
On-Line Computing System for the Data Processing of Cardiovascular and Pulmonary Dynamics....Pages 813-813
Mumps/File Manager/Snomed-Based Computer Program for Surgical Pathologic Services....Pages 814-814
“Large Scale Consumers” in Pathology....Pages 815-815
Back Matter....Pages 816-816
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