Korean J Pathol.  1989 Dec;23(4):410-415.

Computerization of Surgical Pathology Reporting and Data Storage by Automatic Coding System using Personal Computer

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  • 1Department of Pathology, College of Medicine, Seoul National University, Seoul, Korea.

Abstract

The authors developed a computer program for use in report printing as well as data storage and retrieval system at the surgical pathology and its efficacy was evaluated at the Department of Pathology, Seoul National University Hospital. This program used IBM PC XT and was written in DBASE III plus language. The main features of the program included an automatic coding and decoding of the diagnosis, automatic searching of the previous biopsy during gross dictation, powerful word processing function and flexibility of the program. The data storage was carried out during the typewriting of the report, so that the typist's workload became markedly reduced. Two kinds of data files wer stored in the hard disk ; the temporary file contained full informations and the permanent file contained the core data only. Searching of a specific case was performed by pathology accession number, chart number, patient's name or by SNOMED code within a second. All the cases were arranged by copied to the diskette during the daily service automatically, with which data were easily restored in case of hard disk failure. The advantages of this program using a persosnal computer were discussed with comparison to those of larger computer system. Based on the experience of 8 months usage in Seoul National University, we assume that this program gives a sufficient solution to the surgical pathology service of many institutes where a large computer system with well designed software is not available yet.

Keyword

Computerization; Pathology report and data storage; Coding system

MeSH Terms

Academies and Institutes
Information Storage and Retrieval
Biopsy
Clinical Coding*
Computer Systems
Diagnosis
Humans
Information Storage and Retrieval*
Microcomputers*
Pathology
Pathology, Surgical*
Pliability
Seoul
Systematized Nomenclature of Medicine
Word Processing
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