[Clinical archiving--requirements and current solutions].

In this paper we summarize requirements for archiving in hospitals. Furthermore, we present solutions how digital archives can be built up. Archiving in hospitals requires medical documentation, which should take place preferably in a computer-based way.

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.