Present Status of Computer Support in Ambulatory Care

Abstract

ELIAS: Support of the Dutch General Practitioner.- Computer in the Doctor's Office in the Federal Republic of Germany - Legal, Economic and Functional Aspects of Computer Support in Ambulatory Care.- Primary Provider Groups An Alternative Prepaid Health Care Delivery and Financing System.- Experiences with a Comprehensive Computer Based Information System for Primary Care in Finland.- Videotex and General Practice.- The Characterization Frame: A Tool to Describe General Practice Office Information Systems.- An Approach to Evaluation of Number, Duration and Cost of the Disability Pensions Granted for Rheumatic Diseases.- The Use of Computers in Outpatient Medical Care in the GDR.- Computer Systems and Services in South Africa.- Problems of Co-ordinating and Standardizing Information for the Monitoring of Primary Medical Care. The Case of Bavaria.- Expert Systems in Primary Care.- Obstacles in Computer-Aided Diagnosis.- New Ways and Possibilities of Primary Preventive Health Care by Computer-Supported Psychophysiological System-Analysis.- The Use and Relevance of the International Classification of Primary Care (ICPC) in Structuring Patient Information.- The Impact of Computers on Ambulatory Health Care.- Integrating Expert Systems with Primary Care Information Systems.- A System for the Generation of a Production Rules Network for Medical Expert Systems.- Presentation of a Multi-User System for Office Based Patient Drug Interaction.- Medical Treatment Assistance with an Interactive Drug Information System.- Development and Implementation of a Longterm Medical Documentation for Primary Care.- A Data Management System in Assistance to Hypertension Treatment in Primary Health Care.- The Continuous Morbidity Registration Nijmegen A Database for Longitudinal Epidemiology in Primary Care.- Workshop on New Technologies in Primary Health Care and in Education for Doctors and Patients - Report.- Workshop on Networking and Standardization in Communication - Report.- Workshop on Expert Systems and User Needs resp. Patient Records - Report.- Concluding Considerations.- Author Index.- Authors Addresses.