A web site service for plastic surgeons: New ideas for patients' records

Digital databases are being used more every day in the medical field. Electronic tools to store patients’ general information and dis- eases are often developed by professional soft- ware programmers and not by medical opera- tors. The result is a very well-structured product that is too difficult to use and that lacks sufficient detail because of the lack of medical knowledge. Better software could be created by a medical doctor with appropriate knowledge in programming. The experience of one of the authors (Battistoni) in informat- ics and plastic surgery led to the development of a database software program specific for the aesthetic surgeon. A Web-based patient archive was developed to allow the surgeon to access a patient database at any place and at any time.