Biomedical subjects

J B Thom

Publications and source records attributed to J B Thom.

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PubMed1997

Database issues in object-oriented clinical information systems design.

A clinical information system (CIS) prototype was created from an Object-Oriented (OO) design. We experienced considerable difficulties when implementing the OO data model in a relational database management system (RDBMS), including lack of semantic power and support for complex objects, inability to encapsulate object methods, and performance degradation due to extensive join operations. This paper reflects on the experiences of a CIS research project and explores issues related to the use of RDBMS and Object-Oriented Database Management Systems (OODBMS) in CIS design and development.

Database Management Systems↗

PubMed1995

A study on the impact of database design on clinical information systems.

This paper reports on a research project which aims at addressing one of the most crucial problems in clinical computing--the relation between clinical data and database design and their impacts on Clinical Information Systems. The discussion will focus on a research project that is currently being conducted in a number of acute care hospitals at Melbourne, Australia to investigate the database design for the Emergency Department Information System (EDIS), a subset of the Clinical Information System (CIS).

Australia↗