Electronic manipulation of clinical data in the hospital

In contrast to the applications in everyday life computers have found only little acceptance hitherto in medical field. At the department of neurosurgery of the Landesnervenklinik Salzburg an input-terminal was installed and connected with its computing centre. The examining physician feeds the data obtained from the first physical examination with the typewriter keyboard of the input-terminal using an alphabetical and numerical key. The total findings are typed by the computer grammatically correct. The electronic storage of these data allows quick access to single findings and also an easy statistical evaluation.