Theater-Style Demonstration: Clinical Computing at the Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center

Clinical Computing System The Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center East Campus clinical computing system, developed by the Center for Clinical Computing, is a heavily used, integrated hospital information system.' There are more than five thousand tenninals and workstations located throughout the hospital, ambulatory, and satellite facilities. Each week clinicians access patient information more than sixty thousand times and send more than thirty thousand pieces of electronic mail. Clinicians use the computing system to look up the results of all diagnostic studies, to send and receive electronic mail, and to perfonn a variety of decision support tasks, including bibliographic retrieval via PaperChase, clinical data base retrieval, computer assisted expert consultation, and clinical calculation.