BOOK REVIEW - HOSPITAL INFORMATION SYSTEMS In April 1979, an international group of experts in medical informatics assembled in Capetown, South Africa to participate in a working conference on hospital information systems The conference was organized by IFIP Technical Committee 4, Information Processing in Health Care and Biomedical Research~ with Dr. Marion J. Ball serving as Program Chair The session papers and discussion transcripts have been published by North Holland under the t i t l e , Hospital Information Systems, edited by our own Dr. Roger H. Shannon. Intended as an authorative monograph, this volume offers specifically invited presentations by experts in a variety of aspects of the discipline. Five plenary sessions were held: I) Perspectives: the way patients, doctors, educators, and administrators see HIS. 2) Implementation: content structure, psychology, and technology. 3) Applications: patient records, auxiliary services, clinical decisions, administrative support. 4) Evaluation: past methods, failures, present c r i t e r i a , new c r i t e r i a . 5) Future: technology, medical practice, education, costs, patient outcome. After each plenary session, all participants were separated into four working groups which met to consider the plenary session topic from
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