A SURGICAL PATHOLOGY REPORTING AND ENCODING SYSTEM USING INDUSTRY-STANDARD HARDWARE AND SOFTWARE

  • 1 December 1988
    • journal article
    • research article
    • Vol. 112  (12) , 1195-1199
Abstract
I describe an efficient, inexpensive, industry-standard computer system that is designed for work processing of surgical pathology reports as well as encoding in Systematized Nomenclature of Medicine (SNOMED) and data storage. This system is capable of maintaining a large database of patient information with coded diagnoses. It is designed to be utilized with readily available stock computer hardware and software without significant customization or any additional programming. The hardware is easily purchased from and can be maintained by a retail, business-oriented computer store. The system described incorporates WordPerfect for word processing and CAP/SNOMED system for diagonsis encoding and data storage and retrieval.