Abstract
This paper describes a clinical information system used in an outpatient teaching clinic at UCLA. The system is designed specifically to address the information-processing needs of health-care providers in the clinic. The computer system uses distributed-database technology as a means of establishing data links between different applications running concurrently in a local area network as well as between network applications and hospital mainframe and minicomputer systems. The distributed architecture has resulted in a computer system that can evolve in response to anticipated clinical needs and to the introduction of new technology.
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