Abstract
The HELP system, designed and developed at the LDS Hospital in Salt Lake City, is a data driven hospital and medical information system. In contrast to most hospital information systems the HELP system is primarily designed to implement medical decision-making in real time for all aspects of patient care. The current HELP system is implemented on a Tandem “non stop” computer system consisting of 4 CPUs, disc storage and 240 communication ports. The major subsystems used in development of the application programs consist of a data base management subsystem, a decision-making subsystem, a manual data entry subsystem and a communications subsystem. Applications running on the HELP system include ADT, order entry, pharmacy, laboratory, x-ray, patient monitoring, medical records, clinical research and teaching.
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