An Interactive Patient Record System and Its Transfer from a Mainframe to Microcomputers

摘要

This paper discusses the interactive medical record system which was developed at CUMC and which has been in use at both the New York Hospital and the Eurke Rehabilitation Center for more than five years. The first section of the paper describes its original implementation in APL on an IBM 370/145. This section focuses on those features which are essential to an understanding of the system and which must be retained in any new implementation. These features are described at three levels -- the end-user level, the programmer level, and system level. The final section of paper then discusses the advantages methods of moving this system to microcomputers.