I have attached a letter from a (non-GP-UK) colleague from rural North
Island Kerry Hennessy which may be of interest to some reading these
threads.
He was one of the first to get into recording archives on CD-ROM here in
New Zealand, which they did themselves (the scanning) and I believe the
CD-recording commercially. But that was a whole 18 months ago and
CD-writers are much cheaper now. And Jaz drives are here too.
Plewase note some of this is not applicable to UK. PS: The three hours
of scanning he refers to was designed by none other than John Marwick!!
Enclosure::
Dear Jon,
I was interested to see the comments about the HP scanner and Omnipage.
I first bought the professional version 3 years ago and have used it
intermittently on the same scanner.
The software is excellent and I'm looking forward to seeing the HTML
variation. What I would like to do is set omnipage up as a server
function under windows and access the met files.
Quite often I take a "Must save document" and simply store the met
variation, reprinting it as a printout without doing a text analysis.
This is good for patient handouts.
I use the scanner for 1.maps, and floorplans of our building.
2. Stealing skin pictures for patient education
3. Contract and general document storage.
4. Livening up the bmps on our desktops.
5. All those horrible documents that you use once every two months ,
that are vital , and get lost in the filing cabinet.
6. All my personal/work financial statments.
7 The entire Maternity section 51 was converted on Friday to text to
form the basis of any document changes with the RHA. ( Took 3 hrs on an
old 386)
We have failed in the following areas...
ECG storage...not clear enough
Stuffing plain xrays on the scanner. Accuracy drops off a bit , and a
skull take 32 megs...
Scanning forms for backdrops for Foxpro reports. ( Take too long to
print)
We do not always do the text analysis at the same time but may refer the
larger jobs to a faster machine on the network.This saves scanner time.
I always look forward to a better mousetrap , and the thought of a
hypercard connection between problem lists ? via HTML intrigues me.
Currently I'm also following my plastic surgeon colleage with a video
and planning to store the video under general fields in visual fox 3 for
patient education.
It appear the best way of transferring these extremely large and
uncompressable files is either tap (qic) or the latest small portable
hard drives.
I can see the potential for staff training and standardisation of wound
dressings, phone handling etc.
Kerry Hennessy
pp. Jon Wilcox
Auckland
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