title: [Electronic medical history: utopia or reality?].
abstract: With the advent of computers in medicine, the patient's chart has a more varied function. The basic use has been as the physician's instrument to provide information about diseases and their evolution. In order to link the physician with the capacity of a computer, a common language was elaborated based on the patient's chart. Computerized charting now makes possible not only improved communication and administration but also serves as a statistical databank. Important applications of a medical databank are statistical analysis of the chart, quality control of medical practice and facilitation of scientific studies. The patient's chart becomes a powerful multifunctional instrument in the clinic, the practice, and in research.
authors.affiliation: Klinik für Orthopädische Chirurgie, Kantonsspital, St. Gallen.
authors.forename: G
authors.initials: G
authors.lastname: Sennwald
authors.forename: W
authors.initials: W
authors.lastname: Fischer
authors.forename: G
authors.initials: G
authors.lastname: Segmüller
mesh_terms: D001330:Electronic Data Processing; D005103:Expert Systems; D006801:Humans; D008499:Medical Records; D008501:Medical Records, Problem-Oriented; D012984:Software
vernacular_title: Elektronische Krankengeschichte: Utopie oder Realität?