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A Hospital Information System in Continuous Operation and Expansion

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Implementing Health Care Information Systems

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An accurate description of a hospital information system (HIS), especially a complex one like DIOGENE (Division Informatique hOspital GENéve), cannot be done without some understanding of its political history, which is closely related to the Geneva state policy of 1964 to 1969.

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Scherrer, JR. et al. (1989). A Hospital Information System in Continuous Operation and Expansion. In: Orthner, H.F., Blum, B.I. (eds) Implementing Health Care Information Systems. Computers and Medicine. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4612-3488-3_6

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