A user-centered, object-oriented methodology for developing health information systems: A clinical information system (CIS) example

Journal of Medical Systems

Volumn 36, Issue 2, 2012, Pages 437-450

  Konstantinidis, Georgios ^a   Anastassopoulos, George C ^a   Karakos, Alexandros S ^a   Anagnostou, Emmanouil ^b   Danielides, Vasileios ^a  

^a DEMOCRITUS UNIVERSITY OF THRACE   (Greece)

^b GENERAL HOSPITAL OF NIKEA   (Greece)

Author keywords

Clinical information system; Multi layer architecture; Object oriented methodology; UML; User centered

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BIOMEDICAL ENGINEERING; COMPUTER PROGRAM; COMPUTER SYSTEM; HUMAN COMPUTER INTERACTION; INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY; MEDICAL INFORMATION SYSTEM; COMPUTER INTERFACE; HUMAN; INFORMATION SYSTEM; ORGANIZATION AND MANAGEMENT; SYSTEM ANALYSIS;

COMPUTER SYSTEMS; HUMANS; INFORMATION SYSTEMS; SOFTWARE; SYSTEMS INTEGRATION; USER-COMPUTER INTERFACE;

EID: 84863206961     PISSN: 01485598     EISSN: 1573689X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10916-010-9488-x     Document Type: Article

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