Henry ford hospital nephrology information system

Henry Ford Hospital is a large tertiary care teaching and research hospital in the city of Detroit, Michigan, USA. The hospital contains several ambulatory clinics in the suburbs which contribute to its clinic workload of 1.3 million clinic visits/ year. It had a total staff of 7,000 in 1981. Its revenues were $320 million. The Division of Nephrology and Hypertension operates five clinics providing 10,200 clinic visits/year and performs about 40,000 dialysis treatments a year. This paper describes the experiences gained in developing a Nephrology Information System and a technical overview of the system.