Modern medicine is characterized by the continuously growing spectrum of improving diagnostic methods and therapeutic processes. It keeps getting more complicated and confusing and therefore also needs more order. The main goal of medical documentation is to provide information for the adequate care of patients. Carefully carried out written records like a patient history, physician indexes, or, more recently, patient databases serve to reach this goal. Moreover, progress in clinical medicine is based on the exchange of experiences that are themselves largely based on the uniform entry, use, and analysis of comparable data and findings obtained from unhealthy participants. National and international institutions have been trying for years to come up with.
