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A Health Care Information System for Regional Planning in Transition from a Centralized to a Distributed System

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Technology and Health: Man and His World

Part of the book series: Lecture Notes in Medical Informatics ((LNMED,volume 7))

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Stockholm County has a population of about 1.5 million. The Stockholm County Council Medical Services Board has under its jurisdiction 71 hospitals with a total of 20,700 beds. The total number of outpatient visits handled by the 1,450 county employed physicians is about 3.7 million per year. Of these physicians 350 are employed as district physicians out in the field and 1,100 at the different hospitals.

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  1. Fenna, D., Abrahamsson, S. Lööw, S.O., Peterson, H.: The Stockholm County Medical Information System. Lecture Notes in Medical Informatics, Vol. 2 ( Berlin-Heidelberg-New York: Springer, 1978 ).

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  1. H. Peterson
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  1. Institut für Dokumentation, Information und Statistik, Deutsches Krebsforschungszentrum, Im Neuenheimer Feld 280, 6900, Heidelberg 1, Germany

    Gustav Wagner

  2. Dept. für Biometrie und Dokumentation, Abt für klinische Datenverarbeitung und Dokumentation der Med. Hochschule, Karl-Wiechert-Allee 9, 3000, Hannover 61, Germany

    Peter L. Reichertz

  3. Via Tarvisio 5, I-00198, Roma, Italy

    Ezio Masè

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Peterson, H. (1980). A Health Care Information System for Regional Planning in Transition from a Centralized to a Distributed System. In: Wagner, G., Reichertz, P.L., Masè, E. (eds) Technology and Health: Man and His World. Lecture Notes in Medical Informatics, vol 7. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-49276-1_9

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