[Contribution of data processing to hospital archives. Cardiological experience]

Access to essential information characterising the clinical condition of a patient and the course of that condition is an advance which physicians have long expected from data Processing to meet a certain number of needs: follow up of the patient, organisation of medical secretariat, file selection, help to clinical thought, etc. This typically documentary activity raises a problem of data representation classically solved by the use of clinical information classified beforehand: questionnaires or nomenclatures. This article reports on the use of a truly medical language: REMEDE, a the end of one year's operation in a cardiac department; the automatic processing of 173 coronary angiographies shows the interest, efficiency and flexibility of such a system of automated hospital archives.