Standardization of hospital applications and the problems

Abstract The University of Southern California Center for Health Services Research has initiated an “AHIS (Automated Hospital Information Systems) Workbook Project”, for planning, design, evaluation and selection of computer systems for hospitals. A list of hospital computer applications was developed. Standardized descriptions of all of these were developed and validated by site visits and review by suppliers and users of hospital computer systems. The components of an Automated Hospital Information System were identified and categorized and means of evaluation of the completeness and utility of computerized hospital information systems were developed. These standardization hospital application descriptions are not a resource for planning and development of hospital information systems.