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The Stockholm County Medical Information System

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  • © 1978

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Part of the book series: Lecture Notes in Medical Informatics (LNMED, volume 2)

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About this book

The writing of this text arose through the opportunity of one author (D.F.) to spend a sabbatical leave studying the developments within the Stockholm County health operations. The computerization project that had started virtually 10 years previously. focussed on the Danderyd hospital. had received continuing attention in the world scene. It therefore seemed an appropriate site for study for one charged with responsibility for developing computerized hospital information systems. An intent to assemble a private report became an attempt to write a public monograph when it was discovered that the leaders of the Stockholm project had aspired for some time to put their work more cohesively in the public domain. Since any such publication would be in English and oriented to an international market. the involvement of one extraneous author representative of that market obviously had its appropriateness - in language. interest and detachment. The resulting book is unusual. if not unique. because of its lengthy and detailed description of one system • Starting from an introduction to Sweden and the local health care system. it proceeds through to detailed descriptions of user procedures. terminal displays. and computer files. Undoubtedly some readers will question the merit in having such detail. particularly as it relates to outmoded equipment and a locally developed programming language. Yet some of those same readers might well be among those many people who ask elsewhere why we should repeatedly "re-invent the wheel" in the computer industry.

Authors and Affiliations

  • 10-102 Clinical Sciences Building, University of Alberta, Edmonton, Canada

    Donald Fenna

  • Department of Structural Chemistry, Faculty of Medicine, University of Göteborg, Göteborg, Sweden

    Sixten Abrahamsson

  • ADB-avdelningen Fack, Stockholms Läns Landsting, Sundbyberg, Sweden

    Sven Olof Lööw

  • Hälso- och Sjukvårdsnämnden Fack, Stockholms Läns Landsting, Stockholm 9, Sweden

    Hans Peterson

Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: The Stockholm County Medical Information System

  • Authors: Donald Fenna, Sixten Abrahamsson, Sven Olof Lööw, Hans Peterson

  • Series Title: Lecture Notes in Medical Informatics

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-93101-7

  • Publisher: Springer Berlin, Heidelberg

  • eBook Packages: Springer Book Archive

  • Copyright Information: Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg 1978

  • Softcover ISBN: 978-3-540-08950-6Published: 01 October 1978

  • eBook ISBN: 978-3-642-93101-7Published: 06 December 2012

  • Series ISSN: 0172-7788

  • Edition Number: 1

  • Number of Pages: VI, 164

  • Topics: Health Informatics, Health Informatics

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