[Proposal for a national system of pacemaker patient registration. Goals, technical aspects and cost analysis (author's transl)].

Based on a personal experience with computer logging of pacemaker data, the Authors describe a system for a nation-wide registration of pacemaker patients. The advantages of such registration are stressed. The way of collecting and storing data, the interactions between pacemaker centers and the central registration system, the registration card, the estimated costs are discussed in detail.