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Our purpose in this chapter is to describe selected requirements for a health care professional’s workstation (PWS). We focus on the use of a PWS as an intelligent intermediary between a provider and an integrated hospital information system (HIS).
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Silva, J.S., Zawilski, A.J. (1992). The Health Care Professional’s Workstation: Its Functional Components and User Impact. In: Ball, M.J., Collen, M.F. (eds) Aspects of the Computer-based Patient Record. Computers in Health Care. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4757-3873-5_12
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