Hospital information systems: the minimum data set

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  • José Antonio Salvador Oliván Departamento de Ciencias de la Documentación e Historia de la Ciencia, Facultad de Filosofía y Letras, Universidad de Zaragoza, España

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https://doi.org/10.54886/scire.v3i2.1081

Abstract

The public health, and the hospitals in particular, face up to the challenge to provide more and better medical care in rising costs and restrictive budgets environment. It is necessary an information system based on reliable and available information which let make decissions in order to optimize the poor resources, to obtain greater efficiency of health care and assure quality of care. This paper describes the core of this information system, the Hospital Discharge Minimum Data Set, which becomes the standard of hospital information systems by their aplications as management information system and information retrieval system. (Author)

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Published

1997-06-01

How to Cite

Salvador Oliván, J. A. (1997). Hospital information systems: the minimum data set. Scire: Knowledge Representation and Organization (ISSNe 2340-7042; ISSN 1135-3716), 3(2), 115–130. https://doi.org/10.54886/scire.v3i2.1081

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