Biomedical subjects

U Rabbani

Publications and source records attributed to U Rabbani.

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PubMed1998

A COSTAR interface using WWW technology.

The concentration of industry on modern relational databases has left many nonrelational and proprietary databases without support for integration with new technologies. Emerging interface tools and data-access methodologies can be applied with difficulty to medical record systems which have proprietary data representation. Users of such medical record systems usually must access the clinical content of such record systems with keyboard-intensive and time-consuming interfaces. COSTAR is a legacy ambulatory medical record system developed over 25 years ago that is still popular and extensively used at the Massachusetts General Hospital. We define a model for using middle layer services to extract and cache data from non-relational databases, and present an intuitive World-Wide Web interface to COSTAR. This model has been implemented and successfully piloted in the Internal Medicine Associates at Massachusetts General Hospital.

Ambulatory Care Information Systems↗

PubMed1997

Experiences in deployment of a Web-based CIS for referring physicians.

Improving the timeliness and efficiency of information exchange between the hospital and clinicians in the health care community is an area of active interest at the Massachusetts General Hospital (MGH). Providing computer-based access to referring physicians who are not formally affiliated with the hospital is a particular challenge since these offices are not connected to the hospital network and lack the standard hospital workstation hardware and software. Installing clients for the hospital's clinical applications at these sites has been a difficult and costly proposition. The emergence of Web technology yields an alternative method for developing clinical applications for this remote, diverse user population. We present our experiences during the first six months of deployment of a Web-based clinical information system designed for use by referring physicians.

Computer Communication Networks↗