In our clinic, we are following with this system a group of 7000 persons. Informatic support is necessary to monitor so large a follow up study. In a general environment where physicians work in team is very important to have a real time information sharing. Originally based on the IBM LAN manager the network has been recently updated to the Novel Netware software. In this way there is no need to let paper circulate inside the department.
Many functions are available for the professionals.
The possibility to define the workload of the department in terms of consultancies, clinical examinations, etc. Each field of the clinical record can be used as search field. Further, using logic operators, up to ten fields can be linked together for specific analysis of the data base. The reason is to export data in whatever different statistical system. The procedure allows the end user to define his own software to manage particular areas of the clinical records.