The relevant principle in the RCPath guidance is the identification of
what is part of the patient record and what isn't. The analyser
printouts are not. Do you consider they include anything other than
patient reports eg quality management data, equipment logs?
Best wishes
Jonathan
On 3 Nov 2005, at 11:51, Hogan, Tim wrote:
>
> With the ever increasing workload, we are having problems storing the
> printed output from our 2 Olympus AU2700, we have traditionally kept
> this printout for 12 months. However this is becoming difficult due
> to the amount of storage required. We have looked at storing the data
> electronically, but this is not very practical on the Olympus
> analysers. We do of course keep the records of patient results from
> the analysers on our main laboratory computer, but would essentially
> not be keeping the "raw" data.
> No one can remember when we last had to look back at printed results,
> so we are considering the option of not printing at all, as it would
> appear that if you do not print you are not obliged to keep the
> records.
> The RCPath guidance on this issue is not clear to me.
> What do other users do?
>
>
> Tim Hogan
> Basildon
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