[Decentralization of the ARTEMIS system in a nephrology service in a general hospital]

"ARTEMIS" is a standardized and computerized medical file which is intended for improving the follow-up of hypertensive patients, the efficacy of treatment and for realising national-wide surveys. The software "LIED" of data base for "ARTEMIS" is nowadays transposable on mini-computer. In Nephrology Unit of General Hospital from Colmar, the system has been working since September 1985 with MICRO-MEGA E 32 (Thomson). The administrative and medical data are directly acquired by the doctors and secretaries of the Unit on a conversational mode from six terminals. There is no writing collecting of data. An evaluation of the system was realized with the 113 first hypertensive patients. The results were compared to those obtained from patients of Paris area.