Abstract
Abstract:
The Baptist Medical System serves the 739-bed Baptist Medical Center and other treatment and education facilities. The hospital has a sophisticated MIS center that has an IBM 3090 150E running MVS/XA and over 400 microcomputers. The Baptist Medical System wanted to implement a portfolio of microcomputer-based user applications that were tightly integrated with mainframe-oriented data base system. To do this, the staff decided to develop code on the microcomputer and then port it to the mainframe. Using this strategy has doubled programming productivity. MAGEC from MAGEC Software, a self-actualizing prototyping system to design and develop COBOL applications, was selected so that relatively nontechnical people could do the analysis and code generation necessary to develop full production systems. The first project done by the Baptist Medical Center was a procedure and patient scheduling system that is deemed a success.
