[Computer application in special psychiatric hospital]

After beginning to work in May 1st, 1927. under the title State Mental Hospital in Gornja Toponica, Special Psychiatric Hospital has undergone many transformations during 67 years of its existence. In this critical socioeconomic moment, using the advantages of "informatic revolution", Special Psychiatric Hospital is striving for complete automatization of all relevant functions, showing the tendency to ling with referential scientific centers all over the world. Basic assumption of the project, structure of computer network and the way of the whole system functioning are exposed in the paper. By producing software which is in many respects adusted to specific needs of Special Psychiatric Hospital all functions related to admission and dismissal of hospitalized patients are completely automatized. This paper describes in detail the way of automatization for protocol of hospitalization, for case history and record book as well as for other functions from the hospital sphere of activity.