Demetriades J E, Gomez E
Albany Information Systems Center, Department of Veterans Affairs, Troy, NY 12180.
Proc Annu Symp Comput Appl Med Care. 1991:338-42.
The Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) has been actively involved in examining the benefits of Compact Disc Read Only Memory (CD-ROM) to its operations. Approximately twenty VA titles either have been produced or are scheduled for production by Summer of 1991. Both textual and database CDs have been prototyped. Several of the CDs have been integrated directly into the VA's MUMPS-based hospital information systems. Titles which contain patient information employ the Data Encryption Standard (DES) for sensitive information. A related project involves the installation of a system which allows common VDTs on the hospital system to access commercial CDs such as MEDLINE, PDR, and CCIS. The prototypes have been successful and very favorably received by users.
退伍军人事务部（VA）一直在积极参与研究只读光盘（CD-ROM）对其业务的益处。到1991年夏天，大约有20种VA出版物已经制作完成或计划制作。文本型和数据库型光盘都已制作出原型。其中几张光盘已直接集成到VA基于MUMPS的医院信息系统中。包含患者信息的出版物对敏感信息采用数据加密标准（DES）。一个相关项目涉及安装一个系统，该系统允许医院系统上的普通视频显示终端（VDT）访问诸如医学在线（MEDLINE）、医师案头参考手册（PDR）和计算机化临床信息系统（CCIS）等商业光盘。这些原型很成功，受到了用户的高度好评。
