title: [Informatics in a surgery department].
abstract: In this paper the Authors describe their own experience in applying informatics at the Surgical Division III of Azienda Policlinico Universitario of Messina. After a discussion about existing hardware (LAN of PC) and daily used software (commercial suite) for managing the clinical reports and correlated data (images, medical prescription, reservations, and so on), their conclusion is that a great development on this way will be possible with extension of the services to all the business network and then to WAN as Internet.
authors.affiliation: Cattedra di Chirurgia Generale III, Scuola di Specializzazione in Chirurgia Generale II, Università degli Studi di Messina.
authors.forename: S
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Gorgone
authors.forename: C
authors.initials: C
authors.lastname: Sansotta
authors.forename: M
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Barbuscia
authors.forename: G
authors.initials: G
authors.lastname: Melita
authors.forename: F P
authors.initials: FP
authors.lastname: Pergolizzi
authors.forename: P
authors.initials: P
authors.lastname: Sciglitano
mesh_terms: D003201:Computers; D019992:Databases as Topic; D006751:Hospital Information Systems; D006785:Hospitals, University; D006801:Humans; D007558:Italy; D008122:Local Area Networks; D012984:Software; D013503:Surgery Department, Hospital
vernacular_title: Informatizzazione di un reparto di chirurgia.