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Abstract

The changes of legal condition that the hospitals have had in these last years, have caused great problems also in the Archives' administration produced by those. In particular, there is a lamentation for lack of exact rules which regulate the preservation and the order of clinical fulders, although during these last years SIASO (Italian Society for Sanitary Hospital Archives) is working very much. Photographic supports or other things in place of paper documentation and the archives' administration of hospital institutions on behalf of a third party (records management) do not seem suitable and convenient solutions to safeguard documents that must not be considered from a bureaucratic point of view, but above all from a historical and cultural one.