Kolitsi Z, Griva V, Pallikarakis N
INBIT, Institute of Biomedical Technology, Patras, Greece.
Med Inform (Lond). 1997 Jul-Sep;22(3):215-25. doi: 10.3109/14639239709010894.
IBIS is a broad range informatics tool, which can provide essential assistance to users during quality development projects in the health care environment. It can be used to set up a preliminary process model and specify variable and their interrelationships; the system propagates various quality related effects through the process structure, in a bottom up fashion, by linking quality indices to outcomes, repetitively, until arriving at the final outcome, at the top. An incorporated interactive browser is used to simulate the running process, to test and evaluate it, though a cause--effect interaction on intermediate or final outcomes. The tool provides guided support throughout the quality development procedure and during the continuous improvement process. At the same time, it constitutes an effective training tool on the principles of quality work. Additionally, IBIS can be used for the quality system's documentation, by means of a multimedia presentation, incorporating descriptive text, images and graphical displays, video sequences and sound.
IBIS是一种广泛的信息学工具，它可以在医疗保健环境中的质量改进项目中为用户提供重要帮助。它可用于建立初步的过程模型，并指定变量及其相互关系；该系统通过将质量指标与结果相联系，以自下而上的方式，反复地通过过程结构传播各种与质量相关的影响，直到达到顶部的最终结果。一个内置的交互式浏览器用于模拟运行过程，通过对中间或最终结果的因果交互作用来测试和评估它。该工具在整个质量改进程序以及持续改进过程中提供有指导的支持。同时，它构成了关于质量工作原则的有效培训工具。此外，IBIS可通过多媒体演示用于质量体系的文档编制，其中包括描述性文本、图像和图形显示、视频序列和声音。
