Abstract
Using "Black Box" theory we analyzed human physiology. The major physiological means of communication are the vascular and nervous systems. The fundamental partitions of physiology are the vascular capillary fields and efferent and afferent fields of the nervous system. These fields are generally associated with organs and organ systems. Such analysis leads to the conclusion that the global biological data are information carried within the vascular and nervous systems. Data elements and processes within organs are important to other organs only through their effects on these global elements. Incorporation of these concepts into medical databases would allow the partitioning of the software around physiological systems. As a result of partitioning the utility of the electronic medical record, software could be greatly expanded.
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