A Patient Data Management Computer System with a Respiratory Care Subsystem

摘要

Modern medical practice is becoming increasingly complicated and diverse as new equipment is introduced at hospitals. Community, government and research institutions stand at widely varied stages of technological development. Critical care settings demand an organized but flexible approach towards assimilating large amounts of data. Hewlett-Packard has designed a Patient Data Management System (PDMS) to organize information in intensive care units. The system is a multi-partition software package that can be divided into two parts: configuration and real-time, interactive operation. The PDMS is configured at all installations to adapt it to each individual institution's medical procedures and equipment. Once the system is configured, it is used by nurses, technicians, therapists and physicians. The computer collects, organizes, processes and displays data. Monitored values are acquired automatically, and laboratory test results are entered manually. Then certain calculations are performed upon request. Once data is processed, it is available for video displays or printed reports.