Stair T O, Corn M, Broering N C
Department of Emergency Medicine, Georgetown University Medical Center, Washington, DC.
Acad Med. 1990 Jan;65(1):20-2.
We have an installed base of MAClinical workstations available on hospital wards, which have been used for patient care, education, and research 24 hours a day for the past year. We began with eight machines in the hospital but now have distributed ten more machines to faculty. We have recently increased the programming staff so we can develop more software. The machines and their installation were costly, but have already proven useful for teaching and patient care. Plans for the second and third years of the MAClinical project include workstations for the faculty coordinators of clinical clerkships and expansion of workstations to affiliated hospitals where our students and residents rotate. Software will be expanded to include patient simulations and expert consultations. Medical practice, research, and teaching in the future will need to make more use of information technology. It is not yet clear exactly how and where computers will best serve clinical medicine, but the teaching hospital can be both a laboratory for developing applications and a school for training physicians to use them.
我们在医院病房配备了一批MAClinical工作站，在过去一年里，这些工作站每天24小时用于患者护理、教育和研究。项目开始时医院有八台机器，现在又向教职员工分发了十台。我们最近增加了编程人员，以便能开发更多软件。这些机器及其安装成本很高，但已证明对教学和患者护理很有用。MAClinical项目第二年和第三年的计划包括为临床实习的教职员工协调员配备工作站，并将工作站扩展到我们的学生和住院医师轮转实习的附属医院。软件将扩展到包括患者模拟和专家咨询。未来的医学实践、研究和教学将需要更多地利用信息技术。目前尚不清楚计算机究竟如何以及在何处能最好地服务于临床医学，但教学医院既可以是开发应用程序的实验室，也可以是培训医生使用这些程序的学校。
