Design of RCSS
Resource Coordination Systems For Surgical Services Using Distributed Communications
- Affiliations of the authors: Department of Anesthesiology and Critical Care (DPS); AIM Laboratory, Joseph M. Katz Graduate School of Business, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA (LGV, JHM)
- Correspondence and reprints: Luis G. Vargas, PhD, AIM Laboratory, Katz Graduate School of Business, University of Pittsburgh, 314 Mervis Hall, Pittsburgh, PA 15260
- Received 14 February 1996
- Accepted 13 November 1996
Abstract
The plans for Resource Coordination for Surgical Services system (RCSS) incorporate a distributed objectbase with a coordinating server. User-centered information screens are customized for each geographic location in surgical services. User interfaces are designed to mimic paper lists and worksheets used by health care providers. Patient-specific and site-specific data will be entered and maintained by providers at each geographic location, but also rebroadcast and displayed for all providers. Although RCSS is primarily a communications system, it will also support review of surgical utilization and operative scheduling.
Footnotes
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↵* All names of patients and medical staff in the figures are fictitious. Any reference to an actual person is unintentional.
