[Summary of an electronic chart system in Anjo Kosei hospital and clinical laboratory system]

Many companies are introducing PC systems, and management administration can be done more effectively. Management administration was previously paper-based was, but, with improved PC information systems, their adoption is inevitable. This is the situation facing the Mayor of Ministry of Health and Welfare Health Policy Bureau, the medical and pharmaceutical safety chief of the bureau, the guidelines about "saving medical examination and treatment records on electronic media" by the insurance chief of the bureau joint signature notification on April 22, 1999, the spread of the electronic chart system which changes a patient's paper record, aiming at patient's record disclosure, standardization of data, and equalization of medical quality to no longer be an exception in medical care. At this symposium, I presented a summary of the electronic chart system and the inspection system that this House introduced concentrating on the particularly special functions.