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Large-Scale Clinical Systems. Workstations as Tools for Systems Integration: The Physician WorkStation: An Intelligent “Front End” to a Hospital Information System

John S Silva, A.J. Zawilski, John O’Brian, Neal Gunby, Jason T. Siegel, Mark Lauteren, Robin Halley

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A multi-windowing, user-friendly front end to an integrated hospital information system has been developed for the DoD's Composite Health Care System. An Intelligent Navigation Aid and an X-Windows based graphical user interface encapsulates the physician from system details, such as menu navigation. The workstation facilitates system use via a consistent visual presentation of discoverable choices. A User Support System provides context sensitive and process help for each user action. This workstation is implemented on a VaxStation 3100 running DEC Windows with MUMPS to X-Windows bindings. Physicians and nurses are using it for patient care in several test hospitals.

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Key concepts: Workstation, Computer science, Graphical user interface, User interface, Context (archaeology), Hospital information system, Human–computer interaction, Process (computing)