| Title | A Dedicated Minicomputer System for Information Management in a Neonatal Intensive Care Unit |
| Author(s) | William W. Frayer |
| Source | The Use of Computers in Perinatal Medicine, Chapter 22, Pages 375-385 |
| ISBN | 0-03-061513-5 |
| Publisher | Praeger Publishers, New York, NY |
| Publication Date | 1982 |
| Abstract | This chapter describes the development and operation of a bedside real-time patient data management system in the Perinatology Center at the New York Hospital-Cornell Medical Center, which has been in operation since 1976. The system was cost-justified to hospital administration on the basis of the elimination of manual charting of lab results and the elimination of keypunching in favor of generation of a magnetic tape for laboratory test billing. Special emphasis is placed on how the author approached the problems of user acceptance and optimal use. |