Dpf. Moller et C. Horner, OBJECT-ORIENTED DATA MANAGEMENT - AN APPROACH TO COMPUTERIZED ANESTHESIA DOCUMENTATION, International journal of clinical monitoring and computing, 10(4), 1993, pp. 247-250
The main problem of today's anaesthesia department is that it spans a
multiplicity of locations for data management dealing with data on the
pre-OP, intra-OP, and post-OP situation as well as with data obtained
from the laboratories, the administration, etc. In the operating room
itself, numerous monitoring devices and anaesthesia machines have to
be integrated into the anaesthesia documentation process. Therefore, c
omputerized anaesthesia documentation as a part of quality control urg
ently needs sufficient support for handling both medical and administr
ative data, taking into account that the user usually is not a compute
r expert. We will describe an approach to solve the problem discussed
applying object-oriented technology in medical data management, and a
sequence of technical realization steps to bring this technology into
clinical use.