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J Soar

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PubMed1989

A strategy for coordination of end-user computing in hospital departments.

This paper discusses issues associated with end-user computing and describes an approach for coordination of departmental end-user computing that was implemented at Concord Hospital, Sydney, Australia. There are a number of pressures for end-user computing. These include the inability of IS departments to provide the services that users require, the increasing spread of computing skills and the advent of the microcomputer. The traditional approaches to computing are discussed and the concern over security explained. The potential benefits of greater involvement of users in systems development and support is discussed. Information systems development needs to be a collaborative activity. At Concord Hospital, a number of departments have responsibility for their own local minicomputer and microcomputer based systems. Coordination of this systems effort was seen as important in order to maximize the benefits of end-user computing while seeking to minimize duplication of effort, data or systems, or security risks.

Hospital Bed Capacity, 500 and over↗
PubMed1989

L364,718 antagonizes the cholecystokinin-induced suppression of locomotor activity.

To determine the role of CCK-A receptors in the cholecystokinin (CCK)-induced suppression of locomotor activity in the rat, the ability of the selective CCK-A receptor antagonist L364,718 to block these responses was investigated. Cholecystokinin octapeptide (CCK8) (10, 100 micrograms/kg IP) and caerulein (1, 5, 10 micrograms/kg IP) produced marked reductions in locomotor activity whereas cholecystokinin tetrapeptide (CCK4) (100 micrograms/kg IP) was without effect. The reductions in activity produced by CCK8 (10 micrograms/kg) and caerulein (10 micrograms/kg) were antagonized by L364,718 (100 micrograms/kg IP). In an open field test CCK8 (10 micrograms/kg IP) reduced locomotor activity and total number of rears and increased pause duration. These effects of CCK8 on open-field behaviour were also antagonized by L364,718 (100 micrograms/kg IP). It is concluded that L364,718 is a potent antagonist of the actions of CCK8 and caerulein on locomotor activity, suggesting that the effects of these peptides are mediated by a CCK-A receptor.

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Innovation as hospital culture: a trial and demonstration facility in an acute-care hospital ward.

This short communication describes the establishment of a trial and demonstration facility for new products, technologies, methods and procedures in an acute-care hospital ward at Concord Hospital in Sydney, Australia. The importance of innovation for all businesses, including hospitals, is discussed; and, why a project like the Model Ward can promote innovation as part of the corporate culture. The Model Ward development, implementation and its benefits are reported on and discussed.

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Hospitals: to the next millennium.

Hospitals are changing. Throughout the OECD the hospital, that enduring and pervasive organization which has delivered the vast majority of acute care services for decades, is being reconceptualized. We briefly analyse trends which clearly indicate that the existing concept of the hospital is rapidly coming to an end. The emerging model consists of a core facility comprising only the most acute services, intensive care, operating theatres and an accident and emergency unit, with all other services and units linked by information technology to each other and to the core facility. We explore some of the management challenges confronting those who will be responsible for taking their organization through the transition to the boundaryless hospital arrangement, discuss a number of the existing problems with today's hospitals which the new model has the propensity to resolve, and deal with some of the emerging issues which it brings with it.

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