[Experiences with a Token Ring Network in blood bank administration of the Hannover medical university].

The Token Ring Network is a Local Area Network of IBM. It is a very helpful tool for modulating working processes by personal computers. The Token Ring is a network of the third generation and constructed like a star net. The blood bank of the Medical University of Hannover (MHH) is using the Token Ring for the administration of blood storage and donors. Medical data of foreign laboratories are transmitted into the blood bank computer. During the last year, we had no difficulties working with this software tool in response time and data security and it seemed to us a very cheap opportunity for data integration and data collection on decentralized systems.