[Use of automation potential in intensive care units of a multi-profile hospital]

An example of an automated information system of a large general hospital has shown that using a sufficiently informative clinical data base (with a minimal set of parameters) on patients in intensive care departments, it is possible to provide information inquiries of diagnostic units and hospital administration without distracting staff-members on duty to report on the patients' state. The use of an automated bed turnover management system made it possible to reduce the time of patients' admission to hospital, to improve the planning of hospitalization and hospital transfers, to raise the efficacy of bed turnover, and to reduce unproductive labor of the hospital staff.