The purposes of the medical record processing system are to provide data, (1) for improvement of medical care (2) for more efficient hospital management and (3) for medical research.
It is the purpose of this paper to analyse some problems of the medical record processing system and to propose a new evaluation method. The aspects examined in this paper are;
(1) items of medical record,
(2) information processing.
These analytical results enable us to determine the minimum necessary functions of the medical record processing system. A method for determining the optimum items under given conditions is also mentioned.