Yeungnam Univ J Med.  1990 Jun;7(1):215-219. 10.12701/yujm.1990.7.1.215.

Computerization of Surgical Pathology Work

• Kim DS
• Choi WH
• Lee TS

• KMID: 2377326
• DOI: http://doi.org/10.12701/yujm.1990.7.1.215

Abstract

The authors developed a comfortable program for routine work of surgical pathology. We used IBM PC (80386) and Foxbase plus program. The main function of this program was automatic coding and concurrent surgical report printing. During gross printing, previous biopsy number and its diagnosis were automatically searched and printed below gross description. The reported data were stored during surgical report printing simultaneously, and thus the typist's workload became considerably reduced. Search for specific cases could be performed by patient's name, surgical number, hospital number, diagnostic code numbers (SNOMED code micro glossary), and certain disease entities on very short duration.

Keyword

Computerization; automatic coding; surgical pathology

MeSH Terms

Biopsy
Clinical Coding
Diagnosis
Pathology, Surgical*