DESIGN AND PROCESSING ISSUES FOR THE HEALTH-CARE PROFESSIONAL WORKSTATION - SUMMARY AND RECOMMENDATIONS

The health care professional workstation is a window to a heterogenous set of functions that need to be ported to various types of hardware for different types of users. Processing aspects, which belong with th e interface, storage and communication, to the architectural dimension of the workstation should not be considered outside of a more compreh ensive model including the user, function and time dimensions. Several recommendations, which could provide the appropriate environment for development and help maintain a viable approach as the variables chang e along the four dimensions of the workstation model, are proposed. Th ey concern the adaptation of the enterprise infrastructure to integrat e workstations, the need for a reference architecture for health care workstation development and recommendations for the evaluation and dis semination of results.