A study of hospital information systems from a technolgy selection viewpoint

Abstract

This thesis is a study of the Hospital Information Systems (HIS), withspecial interest in the selection of the underlying technology and possibleintegration of HIS to a nationwide Health Information System. An integratedHIS approach through database administration has been adopted and anapplication software has been developed and installed at the Farabi Hospital ofKaradeniz Technical University of Trabzon. Clinical Information System, stillunder development, will be installed at the same hospital in the near future.Apart from the widely accepted requirements of HIS, three distinctivefeatures of this study are;(i) integrated HIS approach through database administration,(ii) client-server architecture with distributed database capabilities,(iii) physician-configurable tree structure for the symptoms and signsallowing physicians to customize the application for their own style ofmedical case recording.