Gomez E, Demetriades J E, Babcock D, Peterson J
Albany Information Systems Center, Department of Veterans Affairs, Troy, NY 12180.
Proc Annu Symp Comput Appl Med Care. 1991:378-80.
The Department of Veterans Affairs has developed an optical patient card application which will undergo alpha testing in 1991. The optical cards are carried by patients and contain administrative, clinical, and image information. An optical patient card workstation (OPCW) will read/write these cards and pass this information to the VA Decentralized Hospital Computer Program (DHCP), the VA's health care information system. The intent of this work is to study the potential benefits of this technology to the VA's distributed health care network, with a large mobile patient population. It is hoped that the use of optical cards and the OPCW will enhance clinicians ability to work with a timely composite health record, and expedite the administrative workload of the medical center.
退伍军人事务部已开发出一种光学患者卡应用程序,该程序将于1991年进行阿尔法测试。光学卡由患者携带,包含管理、临床和图像信息。光学患者卡工作站(OPCW)将读取/写入这些卡,并将此信息传递给退伍军人事务部的分散医院计算机程序(DHCP),即退伍军人事务部的医疗保健信息系统。这项工作的目的是研究这项技术对退伍军人事务部分布式医疗保健网络(有大量流动患者群体)的潜在益处。希望使用光学卡和OPCW将提高临床医生处理及时综合健康记录的能力,并加快医疗中心的行政工作量。