HELP: A Dynamic Hospital Information System

I. Overview of the HELP System.- 1. History of the HELP System.- 2. HELP System Hardware.- 3. The Data Dictionary and Data and File Structures.- 4. HELP System Interfaces.- 5. Decision Support on the HELP System.- 6. Current Usage of the HELP System.- II. Administrative Functions on the HELP System.- 7. Admit-Discharge-Transfer Functions.- 8. Medical Records Functions.- 9. Computerized Data in Quality Assurance.- 10. Surgery Scheduling.- 11. Miscellaneous Administrative Functions.- III. Use of the HELP System in the Intensive and Acute Care Units.- 12. The HELP System in the Intensive Care Units.- 13. Nursing Information System.- 14. Computerized Respiratory Care Charting.- 15. The Pharmacy Application of the HELP System.- 16. The LDS Hospital Laboratory System.- 17. Computerized Laboratory Alerting System.- 18. Computerized Infectious Disease Monitor.- 19. Computerized Blood Gas Interpretation and Reporting.- 20. Medical Information Bus.- 21. Hemodynamic Monitoring.- 22. Computerized Total Parenteral Nutrition Ordering and Nutritional Therapy Monitoring.- 23. Computerized Protocols for Ventilator Management.- 24. Surgery Monitoring on the HELP System.- 25.1 Overview.- IV. Other Clinical Applications on the HELP System.- 26. Blood Ordering on the HELP System.- 27. Computerized Gathering of Cardiac Catheterization Data.- 28. Electrocardiograms on the HELP System.- 29. Use of the HELP System by Radiology.- 30. Computerized Pulmonary Function Testing.- 31. Physicians’ Remote Call-In Network.- 32. Computerized Urinary Catheter Culture Monitoring.- V. Inactive or Experimental HELP System Modules.- 33. Computerized History Taking on the HELP System: Initial Efforts, Goals, Methods, and Evaluations.- 34. Computer-Assisted Pregnancy Management.- 35. Currently Inactive HELPPrograms.- Appendix A: Acknowledgments.- Appendix B: HELP System Dissertations and Theses.- Appendix C: HELP System Publications.- Appendix D: LDS Hospital Statistics for 1990.