Implementing the Medical Desktop: tools for the integration of independent information resources.
Implementing the Medical Desktop: tools for the integration of independent information resources.
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实施医疗桌面:整合独立信息资源的工具。
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1991
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Harold I. Litt
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John W. Loonsk;Rick Lively;Erik TinHan;Harold I. Litt
The increasing availability of medical information resources has moved the "Medical Desktop" from a theoretical construct to a practical necessity. Many micro-computers are becoming available in clinical and academic settings that can access several medical information applications. These computers are usually not powerful workstations that are part of a clinically oriented information support system, but are personal computers with varied capabilities. The applications on these computers come from different sources, are accessed through different user interfaces and do not share data well. The de facto "Medical Desktop" this situation presents will discourage most end-users because the combination of applications is complex, the applications are poorly integrated, and individual applications are inconsistent. At the State University of New York at Buffalo School of Medicine and Biomedical Sciences we have developed several Microsoft Windows-based tools that accept a systems level diversity of resources, but work toward the construction of a coherent "Medical Desktop." These tools include a lexical term linker, a resource database, and a context sensitive help system that is tailored to locally available resources.