[The founding and development of day care hospitals as integral structural subunits of therapeutic and preventive care institutions].

The experience gained in the complex approach to the organization of day hospitals at curative and preventive facilities in Lvov and Lvov region is described. The problems in the delivery of in-patient care for the population formed the basis for the drafting of programme aimed at developing the network of out-patient departments of active treatment of patients. The description is given of the main components of day hospitals activities, schedule of work, indications and contra-indications for the treatment of patients.

[Experience and perspectives of automatization of work in a polyclinic].

On-stage development of subsystems, automating the work of a polyclinic, previously was oriented to the departments of Automated Systems of Management at industrial enterprises and computers of ES type, at present a number of subsystems has been developed and are being developed which are oriented to personal computers and mini-computers of SM type which are being installed directly at the polyclinics. All subsystems are consolidated on the basis of systems approach.