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Health Information Systems

Surgical Pathology Clinics, 2015
This article provides surgical pathologists an overview of health information systems (HISs): what they are, what they do, and how such systems relate to the practice of surgical pathology. Much of this article is dedicated to the electronic medical record.
S Joseph, Sirintrapun, David R, Artz
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Soft information systems

Journal of Information Technology, 1990
This paper describes a category of information systems called ‘Soft information systems’. Basically these lie between conventional information systems in which data are well defined, and management support, and decision support systems. A soft system is a system which operates on soft data. Such data cover categories of information such as conjectures,
Ivan F. Jackson, David Hosking
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Geographic information systems

Progress in Human Geography, 1988
Geographic information systems (GISs) are defined as software systems. In this article, the relationships between GIS and other activities having to do with geographic information are reviewed. The use of GIS in social and behavioral sciences is discussed as an increasingly essential component of the research infrastructure and as a tool for acquiring ...
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Laboratory Information Systems

Clinics in Laboratory Medicine, 2015
Laboratory information systems (LISs) supply mission-critical capabilities for the vast array of information-processing needs of modern laboratories. LIS architectures include mainframe, client-server, and thin client configurations. The LIS database software manages a laboratory's data.
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Telemedical information systems

IEEE Transactions on Information Technology in Biomedicine, 1999
Telemedical information systems (TIS's) form the basis for telemedicine services as well as for health information services. This paper gives an introduction to the wide scope of TIS's and discusses examples for the different types of TIS's: patient-related TIS's, knowledge-related TIS's, and meta-TIS's.
A, Horsch, T, Balbach
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Medical Information Systems

Annual Review of Biophysics and Bioengineering, 1980
Socialized medicine and other related systems of social welfare, such as the Medicare.and Medicaid programs in the United States, have helped make health care one of the major worldwide growth industries (62). International institutions, such as the World Health Organization, and national agencies, such as the US National Institutes of Health, have ...
E M, Laska, S G, Abbey
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Clinical Information Systems

Seminars in Pediatric Surgery, 2000
Clinical information systems are the computer and information systems used by health care personnel to facilitate patient care. These systems have evolved from financial systems to true patient care systems with variable levels of functionality. Early systems provided laboratory and radiology results, and modern systems now provide copies of the ...
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Nursing Information Systems

Symposium Record Policy Issues in Information and Communication Technologies in Medical Applications, 1989
Computers—mainframes, minicomputers, and microcomputers—have effected marked change in the health care industry and particularly the nursing profession. Computers are becoming a part of our everyday existence and are influencing “man” by their human-like characteristics.
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System as information—information as system

World Futures, 1997
It is tried to show that pragmatic information as a generalised concept of information plays a role as an interacting meaningful entity between systems. Systems are sources of information and information is able to build up systems. Therefore system and information seem to be two sides of the same coin.
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Information Systems

Yearbook of Medical Informatics, 1999
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