Automating a Patient Acuity System: Application Development on a Personal Computer

摘要

Nursing represents the largest single component of a medical center's total expenses. However, with few exceptions, there is very little automated support for nursing management functions. The purpose of this paper is two-fold: 1) It will describe an alternative approach to implementing automated systems to meet the diverse needs of Nursing. This approach combines the power of personal computer technology with fourth generation development software; 2) This paper will also describe the use of a multidisciplinary project team in the systems analysis and development process. In 1983, the Moses Division of the Montefiore Medical Center (MMC) successfully automated its patient acuity and staffing system utilizing this new approach.