On stepwise integrating an electronic patient record based on digital-optical archiving and multi-purpose health professional workstations: experiences at the Heidelberg University Hospital.

At the Heidelberg University Hospital the conventional paper-based medical record is currently being replaced by a "unique" electronic patient record (EPR). This paper describes the stepwise integration of an EPR based on digital-optical archiving and multi-purpose health professional workstations. If focuses on the potentials of digital optical archiving as an integral part of hospital information systems.

[Leptospirosis epidemic (L. grippothyphosa) in the Mainz area, concerning the pediatric age group (author's transl)].

31 children, presenting with rather uncharacteristic symptoms of an infectious disease and being referred to this clinic mostly because of lymphadenitis of the neck (81%) and/or signs of meningitis (45%), were seen within a period of only eight weeks and proved to suffer from Leptospirosis (L. grippotyphosa). The majority of the patients belonged to the age group of one to six years and lived in rural environs.