Author/Editor		Kokol, P; Završnik, J; Kancler, K; Bigec, M
Title		Two levelled design of an unified paediatric health care encounter
Type		članek
Source		Med inform
Vol. and No.		Letnik 20, št. 3
Publication year		1996
Volume		str. 199-208
Language		eng
Abstract		The appearaance of the new computer-based information tehcnology has initiated the possibility of medical staff performing their everyday routine activities more effectively and efficiently. But to be able to use information technology as successfully as possible, unified and integrated medical encounters are urgently needed especially in the paediatrics field. The tendency to unify the medical encounter is relatively old and had already begun in the "pre-computer era". There were some, unpublished, attempts to unify the child's medical encounter during the last years in our country. Unfortunately they were all unsuccessful for various reasons, but it is our deep belief that the common factor for their lack of success was the inappropriateness of the methodology being used and the neglect of many system theory principles especially soft-system ones. It is the objective of this paper to briefly introduce MetaMet and its application in the design of the UNCLE (UNified Child's heaLth carE Encounter). MetaMet is an information system design approach, based on two-levelled design and its aim is to overcome at least some problems concerned with software crisis and to enable more successful design of (medical) information system.
Descriptors		CHILD HEALTH SERVICES CASE MANAGEMENT MEDICAL RECORDS SYSTEMS, COMPUTERIZED SYSTEMS INTEGRATION SLOVENIA SOFTWARE DESIGN USER-COMPUTER INTERFACE