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Clinical
Information Systems |
Clinical Information Systems
Other Topics:
NLP Solutions -
Natural Language Processing,
Hospital Information Systems,
Health
Informatics
A hospital
information system (HIS), variously also called clinical
information system (CIS) is a comprehensive, integrated
information system designed to manage the administrative,
financial and clinical aspects of a hospital. This
encompasses paper-based information processing as well as
data processing machines.
As an area of medical informatics the aim of an HIS is to
achieve the best possible support of patient care and
administration by electronic data processing.
It can be composed of one or few software components with
specialty specific extensions as well as of a large
variety of sub-systems in medical specialties (e.g.
Laboratory Information System, Radiology Information
System).
CISs are sometimes separated from HISs in that the former
concentrate on patient- and clinical state- related data
(electronic patient record) whereas the latter keeps track
of administrative issues. The distinction is not always
clear and there is contradictory evidence against a
consistent use of both terms. |
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