Surgical pathology accessioning and management on a multiuser hard disk microcomputer system.

We have developed an inexpensive, microcomputer-based, multiuser hard disk system for surgical pathology that uses a commercially available word processor and data base manager, linked together by several BASIC programs written by us. System functions include keyboard input of patient demographic data and specimen information, word processing with the generation of preliminary and final surgical reports, on-line access to the surgical pathology data base, generation of daily secretarial and histology log sheets, and computer-assisted SNOMED coding. Successful implementation of this system has produced greater efficiency and productivity in the surgical pathology department at a reasonable cost.