Unfortunately the appointment system is not downloaded.. And neither yet
are all the hospital letters, (although that facility exists, and I hope
to get it soon). What the IPA enables me to do is to get my head down
and carry on consulting with nearly all the patient record at my
fingertips, while everybody else runs around getting the system up &
running. Less hassle for patients and reception, as patients are not
kept waiting. FrontDesk paper printouts of the appointments already
made are available quickly, and updated by hand until the system comes
up.
Mind you, I then have to update the record manually... entering
everything onto the Ipaq is too slow, although it can be done, and will
update itself during synchronisation.
Michael Writes
>If you can do your morning surgery on your iPAQ when the main system has
>crashed, you must presumably have the whole practice database (including
>appointments) on your iPAQ?
>
>Presumably other partners, nurses, etc. can use their iPAQs in this way
>when the main system is down. Synchronising afterwards must be something
>of an adventure, particularly if future appointments may have been made.
>
>I understand that systems that support iPAQs usually download the
>relevant patients' records to the iPAQ, and lock them until the home
>visits are done and the new findings can be uploaded. This doesn't seem
>to be the way your system works.
>
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>Michael
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Chris Pearson
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