Trends in Integrated Clinical Workstations

Medical Data Visualization: Toward Integrated Clinical Workstations

s our ability to access the abundance of clinical data grows, it is imperative that methods to organize and to visualize this information be in place so as not to overwhelm users: increasingly, users are faced with information overload. Moreover, the manner of presentation is fundamental to how such information is interpreted, and can be the turning point in uncovering new insights and knowledg...

Scheduling Revisited Workstations in Integrated-Circuit Fabrication

The cost of building new semiconductor wafer fabrication factories has grown rapidly, and a state-of-the-art lab may cost $250 million or more. Obtaining an acceptable return on this investment requires high productivity from the fabrication facilities. This paper describes the Photo Dispatcher system which has been developed to make machine-loading recommendations at a sat of key fab machines....

Physicians' workstations: integrated information management for clinicians.

This paper describes a project to specify, design, develop, and evaluate a physician's workstation for use in patient care. We conducted an ethnographic study of physicians' information needs in an outpatient setting, from which we derived a set of functional specifications for a physician's workstation. We have implemented an experimental prototype using an open systems, client/server architec...

Clinical workstations: identifying clinical requirements and understanding clinical information.

A preliminary exploration of the problem of defining and meeting users' needs, this paper draws the bulk of its content from experiences in the PEN&PAD project in the UK. This program has been researching and developing prototype clinical workstations for direct use in patient care by health care professionals, chiefly doctors. Focusing more on general issues rather than the specific functional...

An Integrated Approach of Performance Prediction on Networks of Workstations