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Computer in the Doctor’s Office in the Federal Republic of Germany — Legal, Economic and Functional Aspects of Computer Support in Ambulatory Care

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The German System of Compulsory Health Insurance (CHI) provides administrative rules for computer applications. Certain program functions must be approved officially. Installations of doctor’s office computers increase by 60% each year reaching 2.200 at the end of 1985. Decision oriented medical information processing is developing, but may gain political importance if the budgetary balance of the expensive social security system is influenced.

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  1. Zentralinstitut für die Kassenärztliche Versorgung, Ottostrasse 1, D-5000, Köln 40, Deutschland

    Erhard Geiss

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  1. Med. Hochschule Hannover, Institut für Med. Informatik, Konstanty-Gutschow-Straße 8, 3000, Hannover 61, Deutschland

    Peter L. Reichertz  & Ursula Piccolo  & 

  2. Gesellschaft für Strahlen- und Umweltforschung mbH München, MEDIS-Institut, Ingolstädter Landstraße 1, 8042, Neuherberg, Deutschland

    Rolf Engelbrecht

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Geiss, E. (1987). Computer in the Doctor’s Office in the Federal Republic of Germany — Legal, Economic and Functional Aspects of Computer Support in Ambulatory Care. In: Reichertz, P.L., Engelbrecht, R., Piccolo, U. (eds) Present Status of Computer Support in Ambulatory Care. Lecture Notes in Medical Informatics, vol 30. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-93355-4_2

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