자동코딩 방식을 이용함으로써 업무 수행능력이 배가되고 용이하게 호출이 가능하며 디스켓에 따로 저장하는 보완장치가 있으므로 상당히 안전하리라 생각된다. 대형컴퓨터에 비해 그 소요경비가 무척 절감되었으며 언제든지 프로그램 보완이 가능하여 앞으로의 이용이 주목된다 하겠다.

The authors developed a comfortable program for routine work of surgical pathology. We used IBM PC(80386) and Foxbase plus program. The main function of this program was automatic coding and concurrent surgical report printing. During gross printing, previous biopsy number and its diagnosis were automatically searched and printed below gross description. The reported datas were stored during surgical report printing simultaneously, and thus the typist`s workload became considerably reduced. Search for specific cases could be performed by patient`s name, surgical number, hospital number, diagnostic code numbers(SNOMED code microglossary), and certain disease entities on very short duration.