A universal object-oriented medical database system

Author

Nagin, V.A. ; Potapov, I.V. ; Selishchev, S.V.

Author_Institution

Biomed. Syst. Dept., Moscow State Inst. of Electron. Technol., Russia

Volume

4

fYear

2001

fDate

2001

Firstpage

3708

Abstract

The paper presents and discusses a universal client/server object-oriented patient database system for clinical and personal applications. The developed system makes it possible to manage all patient specific data in the unified way by means of object-oriented representation of heterogeneous medical data, which include patient details, examination results and doctor visits history. The presented implementation includes a database server and a universal client application, which serves as a container for manifold medical applications that require database services. This approach enables to simplify drastically the implementation of database support in client applications and to put the main computational burden on the container application, which communicates with its clients by means of defined interface protocols.

Keywords

medical information systems; object-oriented databases; protocols; COM+; OLE; biomedical data; client applications; computational burden; container application; defined interface protocols; doctor visits history; examination results; heterogeneous medical data representation; medical care system maintenance costs; patient details; personal applications; Application software; Biomedical equipment; Containers; Database systems; Distributed databases; Medical diagnostic imaging; Medical information systems; Medical services; Object oriented databases; Workstations;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society, 2001. Proceedings of the 23rd Annual International Conference of the IEEE

ISSN

1094-687X

Print_ISBN

0-7803-7211-5

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/IEMBS.2001.1019641

Filename

1019641