Medical workstation for the management of the transplantation unit of a hospital

Abstract

A prototype for a workstation (referred to as the transplant unit workstation) that attempts to satisfy the information management needs of the transplant unit of a hospital is described. The system allows the user to: create and gain access to donor folders and recipient folders; transmit all types of documents contained in them, i.e. text, images, graphics, etc.; apply tools to scan, edit, and print these documents; and run application programs such as statistical analysis or aid in decision making concerning the most suitable recipient for a given donor organ. The implementation, which at present only covers liver transplant, is written in C language, under the Unix System V r3.2 OS, in the X-Windows environment, with the OSF/Motif toolkit and structured query language (SQL) as the language of access to a relational database.<>