The Healthcare Administrator's Associate: an experiment in distributed healthcare information systems
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The Healthcare Administrator's Associate is a collection of portable tools designed to support analysis of data retrieved via the Internet from diverse distributed healthcare information systems by means of the InfoSleuth system of distributed software agents. Development of these tools is part of an effort to enhance access to diverse and geographically distributed healthcare data in order to improve the basis upon which administrative and clinical decisions are made.
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عنوان ژورنال:
- Proceedings : a conference of the American Medical Informatics Association. AMIA Fall Symposium
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تاریخ انتشار 1997