Automated Problem-Oriented Medical Information System (PROMIS). Functional Specification of a PROMIS Instance System

摘要

The problem oriented medical philosophy is embodied in a computer system in operation at the Medical Center Hospital of Vermont in Burlington, Vermont, developing solutions to important problems in medicine via innovations in the practice of medicine and in the design and use of computer hardware and software. Users of the system make selections on displays, presented at touch-screen terminals, which embody a guidance system of medical knowledge and data retrieved from electronically prepared records which themselves have been generated by interactions with the guidance system. The Functional Specification describes the building blocks of this system -- the medical guidance structure, characteristics of the display medium, medical data base language, application programming languages, software modularization and file system -- and is structured to allow people of varying technical and medical interests and capabilities to understand and implement some or all of the concepts and tools of PROMIS. The tapes and documentation are periodically updated.