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Happy birthday DIOGENE: a hospital information system born 20 years ago.
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Happy birthday DIOGENE: a hospital information system born 20 years ago.

  • 1999-07-16
Published in:
  • International journal of medical informatics. - 1999
Computer Systems
Databases, Bibliographic
History, 20th Century
Hospital Information Systems
Hospitals, University
MEDLINE
Medical Records Systems, Computerized
Organizational Innovation
Quality of Health Care
Switzerland
English Since its birth in 1978, DIOGENE, the hospital information system of Geneva University Hospital has been constantly evolving, with a major change in 1995, when migrating from a centralized to an open distributed architecture. For a few years, the hospital had to face health policy revolution with both economical constraints and opening of the healthcare network. The hospital information system DIOGENE plays a significant role by integrating four axes of knowledge: medico-economical context for better understanding and influencing resources consumption; the whole set of patient reports and documents (reports, encoded summaries, clinical findings, images, lab data, etc.), patient-dependent knowledge, in a vision integrating time and space; external knowledge bases such as Medline (patient-independent knowledge); integration of these patient-dependent and independent knowledge in a case-based reasoning format, providing on the physician desktop all relevant information for helping him to take the most appropriate adequate decision.
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  • English
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closed
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https://folia.unifr.ch/unifr/documents/200388
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