| Computer Network Development in Anesthesiology/Critical Care Medicine at the Johns Hopkins Medical Institutions: Standards and Solutions | |||||||||||
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| We have previously reported on our development and use of a minicomputer system for the Operating Rooms (OR) of Johns Hopkins Hospital [1,2]. This system schedules surgical procedures for the entire hospital. Consideration of the computing needs for the Department of Anesthesiology and Critical Care Medicine (DACCM) by a departmental task force identified areas where a local area network (LAN) could be of benefit. These included improvement in intradepartmental communication, increased computer availability, access to the OR scheduling system and to data bases maintained by other departments, and development of our own administrative databases. In 1989 a LAN was implemented in the DACCM and has achieved many of its goals. Impediments to acceptance of the LAN are: 1) human factors related to resistance to new “standards”, and 2) technical factors related to the inability of the LAN to precisely duplicate preexisting methods of handling information. | |||||||||||
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