Documentation requirements in the field of medicine have greatly increased over the past years, resulting in a need for substantial numbers of staff. Repeated documentation has become the norm, especially in oncology. This affects both hospital and family doctors. Few intelligent links between hospitals and community medical surgeries exist. One reason for this could be a failure of communication between manufacturers and users of such software. With Project ZBR, the AG MiMi of the DGS (German Senology Society) has itself set the task of developing software which will be suitable for routine medical documentation in the field of breast diagnostics as well as for the gathering of study data, without the need for repeated data entries. This will also create the possibility of a central linkage of data from various hospitals to perform benchmarking and multi-centre studies. The software is designed "by doctors for doctors". This article describes the development of this documentation platform. It aims to show that alongside routine medical work, it is also helpful if our profession participates in shaping the development of such systems.     «

Documentation requirements in the field of medicine have greatly increased over the past years, resulting in a need for substantial numbers of staff. Repeated documentation has become the norm, especially in oncology. This affects both hospital and family doctors. Few intelligent links between hospitals and community medical surgeries exist. One reason for this could be a failure of communication between manufacturers and users of such software. With Project ZBR, the AG MiMi of the DGS (German S...     »