THE DEVELOPMENT OF A CLIENT APPLICATION FOR THE COLLABORATIVE SOCIAL AND MEDICAL-SERVICES SYSTEM

This paper describes the design and implementation of a client applica tion for the Baylor College of Medicine Teen Health Clinics. The appli cation is the front end to the Collaborative Social and Medical Servic es System (CSMSS) under development by Baylor's Medical Informatics an d Computing Research Program [8]. The application provides distributed access to an underlying object oriented database system. A process dr iven and patient centered design will provide staff members with a com plete set of services, including forms for data entry and viewing, que ry, and access management to facilitate efficient and effective delive ry of services. Role-specific interfaces will be supplied for clerks, nurses, nurse practitioners, physicians, and social workers. The clien t application is being designed using object oriented methodologies an d technologies with the C++ programming language, and will operate wit hin a Microsoft Windows operating environment utilizing Object Linking and Embedding for application interoperability.