PMID: 8591540Jan 1, 1995Paper

The SAPPHIRE toolkit: an interactive system for the evaluation of primary healthcare computing

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M Pitt, S Kay

Abstract

Since April 1992, the SAPPHIRE Project (Systems Accreditation Project in Primary Healthcare Informatics Requirements and Evaluations) has been funded by the Department of Health in the United Kingdom with the goal of providing a framework for the fair and objective evaluation of General Medical Practice (GMP) computer systems [1]. SAPPHIRE is comprised of three 'facets': A comprehensive specification list for GMP information systems. An Assessment methodology to apply the SAPPHIRE specifications. The Integrated Toolkit. The SAPPHIRE Integrated Toolkit has been developed as an interactive computer-based guide for use in the processes of GMP system procurement and education. By integrating the two other 'facets' of SAPPHIRE, it provides a means of matching a set of user-defined specifications against the systems under consideration. This is achieved by enabling the Toolkit user to interactively weight the presented SAPPHIRE specifications to their individual requirements and then match this weighted specification against a database of benchtest results for available systems. The output from this matching process then gives the range of systems which most clearly meet that particular user's needs as well as highlighting the areas ...Continue Reading

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