Brigham Integrated Computing System (BICS)

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BCIS was developed between 1984 to 1988 by the Beth Israel Hospital (Center for Clinical Computing) minicomputer-based MIIS system and Brigham and Women's Hospital (BWH).

The initial focus of development was to create a new client-server technical platform that would support the hospital's continuing expansion and provide the processing power and scaleability needed for future developments (Teich, et al. 1999). A secondary focus was to change the role of computers in healthcare by creating new clinical informations systems.

BICS is a PC-LAN based hospital information system that provides financial, administrative, and clinical functions to BWH. BICS has been in use for over 10 years7. The main clinical functions provided by BICS are: clinical results review, an outpatient electronic medical record application, inpatient order entry, patient list management, and an inpatient alerting application (Sittig, Kuperman, Fiskio, 1999).

References

Teich, JM, Glaser JP, Beckley RF, et al. The Brigham integrated computing system (BICS): advanced clinical systems in an academic hospital environment. Int J Med Inform. 1999; 54(3):197-208

D. F. Sittig, G. J. Kuperman, and J. Fiskio. Evaluating physician satisfaction regarding user interactions with an electronic medical record system.Proc AMIA Symp. 1999; 400–404