[Use of geographic information systems (GIS) in strategic planning of surgical capacity within a hospital organization].

State of the art planning of clinical work means for hospitals outlining a catalog which is a convincing as it is profitable. Furthermore, it should easily remembered as a "brandname" by patients and consultants. A catalog like this is built up on the basis of an analysis of structures of work, costs, income, needs of the environment, the own work capacity and the surrounding competitors.

[Estimation for bugeting and evaluation of surgical procedures within the scope of comparative hospital administration. Value of LKA, PPR and DRG systems].

Comparison of costing and performances of individual departments or hospitals are required by the statute book of social affairs (Sozialgesetzbuch V; SGB V), but have not been fully introduced in Germany. LBK Hamburg, a trust of 8 hospitals with 17 surgical departments, evaluated the significance of performance and cost-accounting systems such as performance and cost-accounting (LKA), nursing staff regulation (PPR), and the diagnosis-related group system in order to distribute a three-year budget (1996-1998) and to compare, e.g.

[Establishing a general surgical thesaurus for a speech recognition system for electronic data processing assisted surgical report recording].

Hand-written or manually typed operation reports which are still in use in most hospitals are no longer sufficient to handle the ever-increasing amount of reports that need to be processed. We developed a thesaurus for general surgery to be used within the speech-recognition system ISSS (IBM Speech Server Series). From dictation in the operation theatre, the operation report will be generated simultaneously in its written form using a fast PC as interface.