Biomedical Informatics 4th Edition by Edward Shortliffe, James Cimino

Exercise 3

Imagine a patient-care information sys-tem that assists in planning the care ofeach patient independently of all theother patients in a service center orpatient-care unit. What are three advan-tages to the developer in choosing suchan information architecture? What would be the likely result in the real world of prac-tice? Does it make a difference whether thepractice setting is hospital, ambulatory care,or home care? What would be the simplestinformation architecture that would be suf-ficiently complex to handle real-worlddemands? Explain.