Indeed.
I attended a rather surreal project planning meeting where this issue of
printing out of documents from the EDM system by clinicians came up.
The consensus of the meeting (where I was the only clinician) was that
clinicians have no reason at all to want to print out paper as part of their
work, therefore it will just be banned and prevented through technological
means. Problem solved. Everybody felt rather pleased with this.
There were a few red faces when I pointed out that for the purposes of the
meeting 10 copies of the 70 page procurement document had been printed out,
one for each individual. This despite the fact that the document had been
circulated by email well before the meeting.
So much for structured data storage and analysis....don't go there, sore
point!
C'est la vie.
Paul
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From: IT working group of the Association of Clinical Biochemists
[mailto:[log in to unmask]] On Behalf Of Richard Jones [Pathology]
Sent: 27 March 2008 21:25
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Subject: Re: Stopping paper reports from Laboratory Medicine
Instead of a paper report, an image of the printed report will be sent
directly to the document imaging archive system from the printer queue.
- No doubt with a clinical requirement to print the documents on demand
thus defeating the object of the exercise in the first place! At least it
will save the labs some printer ribbons.
So much for structured data storage and analysis.
Thanks Paul - I think we may be entering similar territory
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