title: The electronic patient records of the Hannover Medical School.
abstract: In this paper, the successful introduction of a commercially available electronic patient record archiving system at the Hannover Medical School is described. Since 1996, more than 11 million document sheets of 130,000 patient records have been stored electronically. Currently, 100,000 sheets are stored each week.
authors.affiliation: Medical Computing Center, Hannover Medical School, Germany.
authors.forename: A J
authors.initials: AJ
authors.lastname: Porth
authors.forename: C
authors.initials: C
authors.lastname: Niehoff
authors.forename: H K
authors.initials: HK
authors.lastname: Matthies
mesh_terms: D003625:Data Collection; D005858:Germany; D006784:Hospitals, Teaching; D006801:Humans; D016247:Information Storage and Retrieval; D016347:Medical Records Systems, Computerized; D012985:Software Design