{"title":"The epidemiological information system.","authors":"Z Johnson, H Johnson, N McNee, P Dack","doi":"","DOIUrl":null,"url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Increasing demand for health care services coupled with limited resources require that services should be planned and delivered on the basis of a priority of needs. The Eastern Health Board is developing an Epidemiological Information System in order to measure such needs. The system will bring together computerized health data from diverse sources into an integrated information system and powerful software will be used to analyse and map the data on a small area basis. Pilot work suggests that this approach can be useful in identifying areas of greater need.</p>","PeriodicalId":79662,"journal":{"name":"Journal of clinical computing","volume":"17 3","pages":"73-88"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0000,"publicationDate":"1988-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":"0","resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":null,"PeriodicalName":"Journal of clinical computing","FirstCategoryId":"1085","ListUrlMain":"","RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":null,"ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":null,"EPubDate":"","PubModel":"","JCR":"","JCRName":"","Score":null,"Total":0}
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Increasing demand for health care services coupled with limited resources require that services should be planned and delivered on the basis of a priority of needs. The Eastern Health Board is developing an Epidemiological Information System in order to measure such needs. The system will bring together computerized health data from diverse sources into an integrated information system and powerful software will be used to analyse and map the data on a small area basis. Pilot work suggests that this approach can be useful in identifying areas of greater need.