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Nursing’s Role in Defining Systems

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Healthcare Information Management Systems

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Abstract

Beginning in the late 1970s, developers of hospital information systems (HIS) began to focus on modular systems. Today, HIS are generally built in a modular fashion (Peterson and Gerdin Jelger 1988). The great benefit of modularity is that a system can be adapted in a number of ways, based on the modules implemented. Consistent with its role and scope, a hospital implementing an HIS may select modules from within an HIS, such as

  • Admission/discharge/transfer (A/D/T)

  • Order entry/results reporting

  • Pharmacy

  • Finance

  • Inventory control

  • Medical records index

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  1. Sheri Ross
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  2. Marilyn Gore
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  3. Wes Radulski
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  4. Ann Warnock-Matheron
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  5. Kathryn J. Hannah
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Editors and Affiliations

  1. Information Resources, University of Maryland, Baltimore, MD, 21201, USA

    Marion J. Ball  & Judith V. Douglas  & 

  2. Health Care Networking Corp., 3408 Balboa Lane, Columbia, MO, 65201, USA

    Robert I. O’Desky

  3. Bayfront Life Services, 701 6th Street South, St. Petersburg, FL, 33701, USA

    James W. Albright

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Ross, S., Gore, M., Radulski, W., Warnock-Matheron, A., Hannah, K.J. (1991). Nursing’s Role in Defining Systems. In: Ball, M.J., O’Desky, R.I., Douglas, J.V., Albright, J.W. (eds) Healthcare Information Management Systems. Computers in Health Care. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4757-4043-1_12

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