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Database. The term database embraces many different concepts: from paper records maintained by a single practitioner to the vast computerized collections of insurance claims for Medicare beneficiaries; from files of computerized patient encounter forms maintained by health plans to discharge abstract databases of all hospitals in a given state; from cancer and trauma registries maintained by ...
- Molla S. Donaldson, Kathleen N. Lohr
- 1994
- 1994
A major transition is underway in documentation of patient-related data in clinical settings with rapidly accelerating adoption of the electronic health record and electronic medical record. This article examines the history of the development of medical records in the West in order to suggest lessons applicable to the current transition. The first documented major transition in the evolution ...
- Richard F. Gillum
- 2013
An overview of the history of medical records; C stands for ‘century.’ Medical records, as defined for this narrative, identify the patient and document, in written and graphic forms, all detail about his health history, clinical symptoms and signs, diagnostic and treatment procedures, medications and justification for their use, and the follow-up continuity.
- Morris F. Collen, Warner V. Slack, Howard L. Bleich
- 2015
- Medical Database Requirements and Structural Designs. The development of efficient computer-stored medical databases was essential for providing usable medical computing applications.
- Classification of Medical Databases. Lindberg [213] noted that practitioners of medicine needed the help of computers to store and retrieve facts needed to care for their patients; to place these facts in the spectrum of similar observations on other patients in the same hospital or region; and to keep abreast of the ever growing mass of new medical knowledge.
- Internet Medical Databases. Internet medical databases were used by Anderson [6] and associates at the University of California-Fresno Medical Center to provide medical information for their clinical decision-support system by adding online access to the National Library of Medicine ’s MEDLINE and other databases.
- Medical Database Management Systems. Database management system s were designed to capture and process data stored in a computer in a way that permitted their ready retrieval [17].
Mar 11, 2024 · These databases are designed to store and manage vast amounts of healthcare-related data, including patient records, medical histories, and treatment plans. By centralizing this information, healthcare databases enable healthcare organizations to efficiently monitor and analyze compliance-related data.
DATABASES IN HEALTHCARE Gio Wiederhold Stanford University Computer Science Department March 1, 1979. CS Report STAN CS80-790. This paper was prepared for a Compendium on Computers in Health Care, Dr. D.A.B. Lindberg, Univ. of Missouri, Editor. The resources provided by the SUMEX Facility, supported by grant NIH RR-88785 were essential to the ...
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Some EHRs developed between 1971 and 1992 were developed with hierarchical or relational databases, around or added to hospital billing and scheduling systems while others such as COSTAR, PROMIS, TMR, and HELP were developed as clinical systems to help improve medical care and for use in medical research [3, 13-15].
