Recently, electronic storage of clinical data, such as images, charts, and various data of clinical tests, has been developed and used in hospitals. These systems are, however, apt to ignore specificity inherent to facilities and to force burdens upon operating persons more than before. Therefore, systems have been desired in which hand writing environment is replaced with computer based one, keeping the fundamental structure as much as possible. We have developed computerized reporting system and applied it to daily clinical use in the division of nuclear medicine of Saitama Medical School. The system has been constructed in accordance with practical clinical study and film reading using general purpose database software which are commercially available. Patient information necessary for reporting, such as patient name, patient ID, birth date and etc, is transferred from the database for study administration to the database for reporting through local area network(LAN). So, procedure of inputting patient information is not needed when doctors are making report. Most of the keying manipulation for input is omitted and menu input system is adopted. Reports written by hand was replaced by the computerized one. The computerized system was taken over the conventional one smoothly by inheriting structure and forms of conventional one as long as possible. This computerization leads to the simplification of reception jobs and to more efficient reporting system.
